PCT day 66 - mile 1380 to mile 1411 (Word of Life Assembly of God, Burney)

"I became vegan because I couldn't eat meat in front of my cat, I might go back to it when he dies" Fomo.

It was a long day of walking in a 33°C heat and water once every 13 miles into a town called Burney but we made it in one piece!

Pretty much all of us, ten people in total woke up at 5am and started to pack up after the night spent at Trail Angel Cafe, we had a big 31 mile day ahead of us. Squad was as follows: Zohan, Tank Top and Camp Post, Ass Ripper and Sugar Mitts, Alex and Ben, Fomo, Rip and myself.

The hike itself wasn't too exciting, we walked all day along one long ridge overlooking a canyon with The Hat and Burney Mountain watching our steps along the way. Good thing was that we finally walked out of the remnants of Dixie fire, so the scenery was all green and fallen trees not as prevalent.

Just after 5pm we managed to reach Highway 299 from which we fairly quickly got a hitchhike to town, tonight's destination was Word of Life Assembly of God church, which community allowed us to sleep in their sports hall where we could have a shower and access to the kitchen. 

First thing I was trying to address after arriving in town was to exchange my Darn Tough socks as I got holes in my second pair few days ago, I went to the local Sporting Goods shop in order to do it. Turned out that the shop had its own policy of returning them, lady behind the counter told me that I can make an exchange but the socks have to be clean and dry after which she took them from me, had a critical look, sniffed them and proclaimed that these are too dirty to be exchanged. Guess I will return there tomorrow with nicely cleaned and dried ones so she can throw them in the bin spanking clean. I'm not quite sure what other reason this policy serves.

Burney had good resupply options, there's Safeway and Grocery Outlet and they both fairly budget friendly markets. People also had some food in town and/or brought brought it back to have at the church and after few hours of socializing and the lights went off at 10pm.

It's was a good, straightforward and productive day.


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