Today: smooth sailing. Wide trails, long, slow inclines, followed by long, slow declines. Giant valleys, beautiful rivers, dead deer, live deer. WE made pretty decent time, probably on account of the slowness of the altitude changes, it still felt good to be early. We couldn’t stay at the hotel at the end of the trail, so we had to get a cab over to a different hotel, and we got to call him and have him pick us up two hours early! Maybe we were too destination-oriented…

Lot of cool old bridges, but only a few photos of them, cause they’re probably boring to look at and I have nothing fun to say about them. We saw a family of deer at the hotel at the end of the trail, which was the first mammalian life we’d seen. That was exciting, but got even more exciting, as you’ll see.

Worst dinner I’ve had in ages, but the lunch was fantastic (ESS). Ephen Stephen. The hotel has a pool, which we all took advantage of, as well as fast internet, which has made these last three posts possible- last night’s place took about ten minutes to upload a photo. Whew! Anyhow, hard day tomorrow! Get pumped, Sutton!