Legs and Borders

"I got my trail name, because I pulled a tent stake out of the ground no one else could" King (Arthur) "I hiked with this guy called Kansas Express but we didn't talk for too long" King  (Kansas Express is doing Triple Crown challenge). Another big miles day, we woke up at 6am, started hiking shortly after. There was a first closure section of the trail few miles down the road, but luckily it had nothing to do with fire, it was about the frogs. To be precise the rare species of them occupying that stretch of the trail, we decided to take an alternate route around them, which was a little bit longer and was on the road. Around mile 400 we met the Field Trip family again, they hitchhiked around the closure and overtook us slightly. The path today was much easier than yesterday with more gentle ups and downs and it was definitely a welcome change, as yesterday my shins were trying to abandon the ship. Around midday we hit our first trail magic since Big Bear, it wa...