When I went to check my notes for this day's hike the page was blank - I didn't write anything up. So this will be short and sweet. Two miles from Goose Pond Shelter we cross the freeway and find Mountain Tattoo waiting with his pick up truck by the side of the road, loaded with food for hikers. So even though we had just eaten pancakes for breakfast, we stopped and made ourselves salad rolls to eat and some to take with us for lunch - beautiful fresh bread. Yum.
We walked through a lot of pine forests and followed lakes modified by beavers. The beavers are able to change the landscape quite drastically - and they are so small. We are walking a lot with Ugly Tuna and Miles. We meet the wife of 'Doctor Rock' - we never actually meet him but we get to know his wife who has had to drop out of the hike because of a back injury. She now drives the car to points on the trail and waits for him and administers trail magic to hikers walking past. So aren't we lucky - lots of cokes on the trail.
There is a blueberry farm marked only 400 metres from the trail, where you can pick your own blueberries and also buy cookies - she is known as the 'cookie lady'. We detoured down to her house but alas nobody was home.
In the afternoon, we pass a large group of young hikers heading to the same shelter as us. We walk faster and faster to get there before they do so we can pick the best tent site. Alas the slope is steep everywhere, and the best night sleep is in a hammock. We are all packed in tight. Stucco and Scatters arrive in the dark and have to camp below the camp in valley.
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