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to Expedition 2000 homeMay 15, 2000
Day 15
Today we hiked the first half of the firing
range. It was extremely hot! No wind to cool us down, either. We
all hosed down our heads at a potable water station when we began hiking thunderheads
were already starting to build in the sky and it was very, very hot around 10
o'clock in the morning! Not a very eventful walk, but the scenery was
beautiful. There is no grazing out here on the firing range, so the hillsides
are uninterrupted and natural looking, as opposed to all of the agriculture
we have been seeing. It was a nice change. We ate lunch underneath
a bridge to escape from the sun. It was the only shade we had all day.
Tonight we are camping six miles into the range, by another potable water
source. It is near a "Foster Creek." I took a walk down
in the valley to it, and Chris and I both agreed that there were probably hundreds
of rattlesnakes down there. A wind started to pick up, and I pitched my
tent on the gravel trail, in a canyon that had been blasted out when they built
the railroad.
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