Legs and Borders

Today I went down to Shelter Cove Resort to resupply and get a shower (2$ for 3 minutes! haha). I woke up to a quite spectacular sunrise, the sun was bouncing of surrounding snow with a reddish hue, giving the landscape a warm and calm atmosphere. The descent to the valley was quite difficult for the first couple of miles as the footprints in the snow has largely melted in the sun yesterday, so I spent a lot of time watching GPS app and scratching my head but eventually the trail returned to it's good old dusty self and I could pick up the tempo again. Few miles before the resort I have encountered black bear number six, this one following most of it's predecessors commenced escaping procedure at my first glance, but at least I managed to see his whole posture before it dissapeared into the woods. It also coincided with the mosquito levels dropping down to acceptable levels (I saw the last bear just before the 'mosquito hell' at Fish Lake Resort) it looks like bears are...

"If we incline to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate then works of art are perhaps a little to blame. For in them we find the same process of simplification at work as in the imagination. Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us" Alain de Botton. First day for about 400 miles without a snow! The torment is over, praise the Lord we can walk on dry and firm trail once again. Looks like I am moving in a bubble with Mama Troll and Mud Skipper, not only they joined me yesterday in the campsite but also today we stayed for few hours in Sierra City to redupply. There was a lot of cruising for everyone today, all the way to the town has been easy, well maintained trail and it was mostly downhill. Mama and Mud got resupply packages send here and since they shipped too much (it's always the case) they shared few things with me, like olive oil and tortillas - I was actually avoiding using olive oil so far, ...