Day 4 - march 28 Tuesday

Day 4

March 28 Tuesday
Miles today 7.1

Total miles 31.2

Lance creek to neel gap

Today was a shorter day as we were ready for a break/chill out in camp. We hiked about 7 miles from lance creek to neel gap where there is a convenience store and hostel and extremely limited camping (e.g. Basically one good spot and a 2-3 semi acceptable ones based on tent size.  We didn't plan to resupply here as much as we did, it was sort of pricey and kind of limited selections, but we are still figuring out how our days are going, what we like to eat and how the calorie intake is working. 

Today we did two climbs followed by blood mountain where there was an amazing view and a shelter, but I'm not sure how many people stay there; it was nice though.  The weather was walking thru a cloud all morning but right as we got to the top of the mtn the sun started to break thru and we were gifted with some spectacular panoramas of all the surrounding peaks.  

We forgot to sign the trail logbook again.  I'm pretty sure we haven't signed a single one yet, so are are definitely going to try to remember to sign the one here at neels before we go tomorrow. The log books are where thru hikers sign as they pass thru an area and then other hikers can keep up with each other  and there's a record of your stopping there etc.

Even though we stopped early today, around 1:30 I think, it still felt like we were busy all afternoon.  Planning what good we needed to get for our next few days, setting up camp, collecting supplies from the store, trying to charge things...   Let me tell you, the power here at neels gap to charge things is superrrrrrr slow.  I'm not sure if it's the source, the cubes, the cords or the amount of other charging at the same time but wow haha.  Don't plan to re-up if you're dead or low because you'll be here a while. I mean, we needed it so I'm glad to have it don't get me wrong I was just surprised I think, so we will need to consider accounting for that in our future timing at other places.