I woke up quite a few times during the night due to the wind. When I woke up around 6 it was very cloudy and moist almost rainy.
I packed up and started hiking at 0645. It was cold, windy and cloudy in the morning and I hiked in my rain jacket and base layer pants till 0900 when I stopped to refill water.
Passing the 500 miles market in the cold clouds
As the rest of my group arrived I hiked on as I had started before them and had breakfast at the water source.
I hiked behind Tanner for a bit but pushed ahead as he stopped with the others for breakfast. We had a massive descent and at the bottom of the descent The mom of another Hiker Cruise was doing some trail Magic. It was delicious and just what I needed to push on to hikertown.
As I arrived in hikertown I got a shuttle to a cafe and got a burger. After the burger I got a shuttle back to hikertown. As the others arrived to hikertown they would rather stay at another place so I went with them to Wee Vill Market to stay the night.
Looking out at the flat desert that we will have to cross.
I had dinner at the markets grill a beef burrito and fries. We slept in the backyard of the market right next to the road.
My name is Martin Caspersen, I live in the very flat scandinavian country of Denmark. Most of my life I have lived just north of the capital (Copenhagen), I have however lived a short while in Brisbane, Australia.
I have a big love for being outdoors. In my day-to-day life most of my time outdoors is spent running where I generally try and push for distance over speed. When I get a chance what I really like to do is to go hiking. In particular I like hiking in mountainous and generally strenous terrain. Until 2018 my hiking experience waslimited to somewhat shorter trips with the highlights being a 4-day hike in New Zealand and a thru-hike of the GR20 on Corsica.
In 2018 that changed as I thru-hiked the PCT, the Pacific Crest Trail, in the US. I have dreamed about thru-hiking the PCT ever since I first heard about it in 2011. The thru-hike was an amazing experience.
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