Re: TR: August 2013 Solo Hike
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:46 pm
Day 6 continued . . .
I stopped at Gallats Lake (it's actually a big meadow with a meandering creek) and found a flat spot to camp, up a ways from the meadow. Just as I finished lunch, it starting raining hard. I threw a trash bag over my pack, put on my poncho and headed over to a thick cove of trees a few hundred yards away. I hung out under the cover of the trees all afternoon, reading my book. The rain finally began to lighten up by 5:30, allowing me to cook up dinner, but it never cleared competely, so I broke down and set up my new ultralight Easton tent for the first time.
The sky never cleared that night; it rained quite a bit, but I was snug as a bug in my tent. This is what it looked like the next morning:
To be continued . . .
I stopped at Gallats Lake (it's actually a big meadow with a meandering creek) and found a flat spot to camp, up a ways from the meadow. Just as I finished lunch, it starting raining hard. I threw a trash bag over my pack, put on my poncho and headed over to a thick cove of trees a few hundred yards away. I hung out under the cover of the trees all afternoon, reading my book. The rain finally began to lighten up by 5:30, allowing me to cook up dinner, but it never cleared competely, so I broke down and set up my new ultralight Easton tent for the first time.
The sky never cleared that night; it rained quite a bit, but I was snug as a bug in my tent. This is what it looked like the next morning:
To be continued . . .