Day 83
Date: 23.07.2022
CDT Mile: Mile 1'704.6
Miles hiked: 32.8 miles / 52.5 km
Elevation: 2'192 feet ascent (668.6 m Aufstieg) / 2'313 feet descent (Abstieg 705.5 m)
Camping at: 7'247 feet / 2'210 m
Just when I found the motivation to get up it started to rain! Well then I guess I sleep a little longer! The rain stooped half an hour later, it was anyway mostly a sprinkle and my tent was dry already again when I packed it up. I really don't miss the cold and wet Colorado mornings! So today first thing we gotta climb that steep looking road up to Crooks Mountain. It was steep but very short and looked much worse than it actually was. Channy turned on his phone to check for water updates on an upcoming water cache (sometimes on peaks we get service. But as my data doesn't work it wouldn't update my app with the latest entries from other hikers). While doing so his phone explodes with incoming messages. Apparently one member of his previous hiker family got worried about where he is and called the police! The police reached out for him and he had to call them back that everything is fine and he is on the trail with little signal! What a drama! We were in town three days ago only. It's good he could call the Police and sort things out with them straight away! On the hike down 'Info' run into us. Together we hike the miles to the water cache, which was still holding more than enough water. Again, I really appreciate the water cache and not needing to filter water. It was cloudy and windy all morning and it even sprinkled a little on us. Perfect hiking weather for the Basin. The dirt road is pretty mellow and as the wind picks up around lunch time, we have to hike on until we find a little ditch to hide halfway from the wind. But we only stop for a short lunch break. In less than an hour we were back on trail. The sun is out now more and it is pretty hot. From time to time a cloud covers the sun and gives us a break. We even pass markers from the Oregon and California trail, which settlers passed about 150 years ago on their way west. Pretty impressive! Later on in the afternoon we stop at a spring in a cow field to get nice and cold water from. Also 'Info' is here again. It's 5 pm and we decide to hike 8 more miles to the sweetwater river, a real river in the Basin! While stopping 5 miles in, we run across the first wild horses! I am so excited. I hoped to see wild horses out here and a little family passes by us very close. We arrive at the sweetwater river just before sunset and get to hike the last miles in beautiful sunset atmosphere. It was a very big day today and I am super tired. As the mosquito's are bad here, we pitch our tents in no time, get water and cook and tat dinner in our tents, before we go to bed with the last light of the day.
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