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PCT day 34 - mile 725 to mile 751

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"We got sucked into a black hole of Kennedy Meadows, but where else you can talk to so much hiker trash" Karaoke. Long day, but it seemed easier than yesterday. First of all there was not as much altitude gain, and my body got used to being high up since yesterday. The backpack got slightly lighter and I ended up repacking it, bear canister as the heaviest item landed at the bottom of it to distribute the load better and it worked just fine. I started walking at 6am, it was all downhill for the first 7 miles, after half an hour of hiking I suddenly heard noise to the left of the trail, I looked down and I saw a big black bear running straight at me! I don't know if I was more in shock or in awe to see it, but I stopped and tried to get my camera out. Then when the bear was about 10 metres from me it finally spotted me (it must have been running away from something else, and apparently they don't have great sight) it immediately did a 360 turn and run away where it cam...