Legs and Borders

"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,...

Me: I got a spare hot chocolate if anyone wants? Mooch: Sure, does it come with 'hot'? Today was a mixed bag of good, bad and ugly. I'm not quite sure if I liked it or not, it's probably somewhere in between. I woke up early and it was still raining from last night, but it was light enough that I decided to wrap up the camp and go. Everyone else was still snoozing so I started alone. After half a hour one of the most peculiar things on the trail do far happened, an adult hawk swooped from the tree right on top of my head cawing like crazy, it looked like his nest was somewhere nearby and he was trying to scare me away. He repeated the swooping manoeuvre two more times and I had to duck away otherwise he would have hit my head. I actually got one of the attempts recorded on the camera. It was kind of awesome in a way, later on I read in the comments on Guthook (the GPS app) that it happened to other hikers as well. Poor angery bird made his nest right on top of a busy tr...