This day becomes our record for the longest distance so far. It is a wonderful hike in the morning through grantie ridges and open country. We can see a herd of wild horses in the distance. 'Ugly Tuna' passes us, running. As he goes by he says 'trying for 25 miles today'. We think - well we won't be seeing him again. But our paths will cross many times, and in the end he drops out and we just keep ploughing on.
We reach the shelter early - at 4.30pm and still feel like we could walk for another hour, so we decide to keep going. But at 5.30 when we want to stop there is nowhere to camp - we are on a trail on a steep contouring around a mountain with nowhere to put up a tent. So we struggle on, and then it starts to rain. We end up walking another 4 miles to the road, and find a campsite below the road, where there is water washing off the road.
We arrive in the dark, and are exhausted and cold.
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