Day 22 6/6 24mi.

We had about an 8.5 mile walk to a McDonald's and chevron gas station that are just off the trail. We started the day excited to get some hot food, we had a pep in our step and we crusied through the miles in the morning.

As you can see in the picture we came across a tarantula. At first we thought it was eating the other bug in the picture, but then we realized that the trantula was dead and the other bug was dragging it across the trail. I felt like I was watching the distovery channel, it was pretty neat.

The views on the way down to McDonald's were amazing! When we got there I ate about 2500 calories worth of food, and carly ate a lot as well. Our bodies were grateful to have that much food, but it wouldn't have hurtif we were eating something healthier. We lounged at mcdonalds for a bit, got a few snacks from chevron and were on our way.

Over the next 17 miles we r headed up almost 6000 feet. After about 5 miles we came to some furniture laid out in the shade and a cache of water. So we hung out for awhile and talked with the 3 other hikers we've been seeing a lot. They even had some lime flavored sparkling water.

After hiking another 5 miles with the other guys we all took a break and carly had a sandwich she packed out from the gas station and I had a McChicken I packed out.

After our snack we took a dirt road detour to avoid Poodle Dog Bush thatvwas over growing the trail in that area and found a campsite right after the detour.