Holy cow

Miles: 3.4
Start time: 8:32am
End time: 2:05pm
High / Avg / Low temp: 84.9F / 71.2F / 71.2F
Relative Humidity Avg: 15.9%
Injuries: none to report

We spend the last few days in lone pine, a town we were sure we'd skip, but ended up really enjoying anyways.

Our last campsite was about six miles to the exit and we got real lucky with our hitch into town.

For the return to the trail we paid a local to drive 4 of us up the hill, and the $60 turned into $15 each which was win win for us all.  The best part was we were toting town food to eat, such spoilt hikers.

Our climb us was relatively short, the first 2 miles mostly flat across the meadow we exited from last time, just too the other side of it, but it was punctuated by a herd of cows cruising past, a few hundred at least, big ones, small ones, brown ones, black ones, black ones with cute white faces, even a few with horns, steers I'm guessing seeing as they didn't posture at all upon seeing us. It took a while to find a break in the traffic as it were but we eventually made its made it past. It was surprising to say the least seeing a herd passing by.

The other achievement of the day was hitting a new altitude record.. 11,131ft.. Woot

It was still a struggle bus, but it was a pretty gentle climb in shade so all good.

We are tucked into bed and ready for sleep.. Zzzzzzzzz