Day 39 6/23 21mi.

We had 21 miles to go to Kennedy Meadows and the only store closed at 5pm so we planned to get up nice and early. I set my alarm for 4:45am. Well, the alarm didn't go off then, after our long day yesterday I accidentally set it for pm haha. Luckily carly still woke up at 530 and we were hiking by 630.

We had a long uphill climb to start the day and at the top we got the first glimpse of the high sierras off in the distance! We both cruised up the climb and baxk down the other side, had a quick lunch and finished the 9 remaining miles to Kennedy Meadows by 3:45.

On the way to the general store we stopped at a trail angels place named Tom. He hosts hikers in a bunch of RV's scattered throughout the property and provides internet and various other hiker services. We set our gear down there and ran over to the general store for ice cream, gatorade, and pick up our resupply packages. The store is to small to buy everything for a resupply so we had our mom send us a bunch or food, thanks mom!

There are about 25 thru-hikers here at Tom's and most we haven't met. At 5:30 everyone went to a poy luck on the porch of the general store where the locals bring rood and the hikers pay $5 a piece to raise money for "emergency services". We were absolutely stuffed by the time we finished eating!

Back at Tom's we got an RV to stay in for the night and spent the night hanging out with other hikers and using the internet. Just before we went to bed Tom cooked up a bunch of hot dogs for us hikers!