March 27 Monday
Miles today 10.6
Total miles 25.1
Devils kitchen to lance creek
We didn't plan to go this far today but it's always nicer to have a small goal and pass it rather than not achieving the goal you set. We left devils today and we weren't even out of the campground area when the sky opened up and down poured on us just long enough for us to get soaked trying to put on rain gear and then, stop haha. It was sort of misty on and off all morning. We passed gooch shelter but didn't go look because it was a little bit off the main trail.
We ran into some fellow YouTube AT hikers, TwoTentsDown, and chatted for a minute. It's neat and crazy to see each other on the trail after seeing people on the internet! It's sort of like little celebrities in your bubble haha. It was a longer hiking day but not super strenuous, just ups and downs.
We camped at lance creek but we got there pretty late since we hadn't planned to go that far. The campsite was SUPER full. Like we had to hike probably 0.5 miles past all the tents already there and squeeze onto this old access side road thing in order to fit. We were going to move on when we approached and saw how full it was but someone got really excited about our dogs and called out "doooooggggsssss" and told us to come down there was room haha. Seems like lots of people so far either like or miss their dogs so it's nice when they meet friendly ones along the trial :-)
9 o'clock is "camper midnight" when basically everyone goes to bed and/or gets in their tent so it's best to be respectful as possible with noise/lights etc if you're up any time past that. I think we arrived in camp around 7ish so we had to hustle to set up the tent, do dinner for us and pups, and then clean up stuff/hang a bear bag. We did have a lovely mtn view from our campsite though and it was beautiful to eat dinner watching the sunset.
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