Desert Mountains - Mile 637 - 6/16

Today was the day I have been complaining about for the past few days, mostly uphill and ending the day with a 1700 foot climb up and down. The best part about complaining for a few days is that you prepare for something horrible and it ends up being better than you expected and that's exactly what happened. After waking up and hiking out by 6:30, six miles were over with in two hours. I was excited and then the sandy desert started. Hiking through the middle of the day heat in deepish beach-like sand is not terribly enjoyable but pushing through it to lunch at a water source before the big end of the day climb proved to be only slightly exhausting. The end of the day climb wasn't bad at all, it was hard but not terrible and after going back down the other side I found a wonderful campspot along a mountain pass. Fifteen miles to town tomorrow means waking up super early (hopefully)and getting there for Burger King lunch....I saw a commercial for a bacon sundae no better time to eat disgustingly unhealthy food...I can't wait!