Day 22, Fri May 18

(Dr Bug) We spent the night on a small penisula in the Arrow Head Lake. A quick inspection reveiled evidence of teen party activity, it looked great at 10pm last night. At the mile mark we ran into Mike and hiked with him till the influence into the lake. We ate breakfast and pumped h2o. The original plan for the day was to take a 3 hr lunch in the heat of the day, but couldn't stop and hiked 17 miles strait to rt 15. You see, the streach was dry, hot and desert like, and there was a McDonalds on rt 15. There was more chaparrel and sage. a desolate ranch, many rocks.

McDonalds was an oasis. We sat in a booth and ate for 2hrs. Then we walked over to some shaded lawn and talked to Billy Goat and Captain America, two hiking ledgends. We ended the day by hiking another 10 miles and finding a flat spot at 10pm on the accent up the San Gabrial Mountains. This was stupid and dangerous because we were tired and one side of the trail was always a shape drop off on one side. There was a hiker sleeping in the trail and we tripped over him. It was on a shape curve with a drop off. That was a bonehead place to camp on his part. Everything turned out OK. We found a side path in a relatively flat area and made a quick cowboy camp. We were 7000 ft up with the open stars of the night above us and streaming lights of the interstate highway below. This was a 27 mile day, our longest yet.

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