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May 12, 2000
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The temperature is about 65 degrees at 600 feet.
We already saw a large rattlesnake on our way up to the trail. This part of the railroad hasn't been uplifted. Now we're really getting into a reenactment of Stand By Me. Ray Brower here we come. It's nice and sunny today and we're in a narrow coulee. The glaciers that formed the foothills to the south are really apparent making nice rounded hillsides. To the north the walls are purely flood formed but both sides clearly show their inner basalt layers. The bottom is, of course, being used as farmland. Lots of sage brush and rabbit brush.
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The temperature is about 78 degrees at 500 feet.
We're back onto regular trail - we decided to walk the road that happened to parallel the trail then it crossed the trail again and it didn't have tracks so we took it. (I almost think that we were on the wrong trail but whatever.) Ate lunch next to a house that had horses and cows grazing together-and the horses (who are usually very curious) acted a lot more like one of the cows.
It's been a very, very long tiring day and I don't know why. My guess is that we're in that middle lull in the trip where we can't see the end and it's not the excitement of the beginning. My bet is that some fights are gonna happen - or people will start to take shit or something- then next week will be the breaking point. Then the last week will cruise by - but we will see.
I'm writing all this while watching Peter and
Cody swimming and it's making me jealous - so, I'm going to go swimming now
and rest my weary bones.
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