Day 9

A little more of a slow morning. The burritos we ordered were delivered at 6:45 but we were packed and moving around 6:30. The extended fam spent most of the day together

The burritos were big and tasty. Gave us plenty of energy for the morning. I didn’t even need my mid-morning bar.

We hiked through some more meadows and along streams. Some of the meadows we shared with cows. Unfortunately there was a bit of a swamp over the trail in one of the meadows almost all of us got muddy shoes.

There was stream access pretty consistently for the first 3-4 miles. We met up at the last place it crossed the stream and collected water for the uphill & exposed carry. It was only a couple miles but the sun was heating things up.

Spicy Batman set up his tarp like a shelter then he and I took everyone’s dirty water containers and went down to fill them up. The spring was putting out barely a trickle, but I got a big dandy lion leaf and made a pretty solid spout that flowed much faster than what was there.

This led to the trail name “Leaf Spout” or “Leaf” for short. We’ll see if it sticks.

Charlotte got the name “5 Spice” today because she can rotate through the personalities of the different spice girls depending on her mood.

After that we had a 7 ish water carry to a water tank near some camping. There are a ton of people here again tonight. We are hoping for something more quiet tomorrow night

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