Day 40 6/24 2.5mi.

We were able to sleep in since we were in an RV protected from the sun. We started off the morning right with a big breakfast at the general store with almost all 13 of the hikers that were still in town. They loaded us up with bacon, sausage, blueberry and M&M pancakes, orange juice, fruit, and coffee.  I got to shower up after breakfast, carly showered last night, then we got to do our laundry. We had to sign up to do laundry last night as there is only one washer and no dryer. 

After all that we went back to our little RV we slept in at toms place and sorted out our resupply. We also got our bear canisters in the mail, which are required for this section of the trail. Its basically a little bucket that a bear can't get into.

Then we went out for lunch at the general store with a few other hikers. they had huge burgers!

After spending some type using the computer and making phone calls we headed back to the general store for ice cream and snacks.

There are about 200 people who living in the town of Kennedy Meadows, but there is no electric lines that connect to town. The general store runs off of a generator and everything at Tom's place is solar powered!

After getting everything thing together we ate a few tacos that Tom made up for the hikers and headed out around 7. Carly ate red meat for the first time in many many years!!!! There were only beef tacos. She said it wasn't to bad.

After dinner we headed out the 2.5 miles to a campground that the trail runs right through, we spent the night in the campground.

Carly and I got trail names hers is Chatterbox (its an ironic name haha) and mine is Chuckles because apparently I never burst out laughing I just chuckle really hard.

Oh and I saw an owl yesterday I stopped to take a drink from my waterbottle and looked over in the trees to see a large owl perched about 100 feet away.

Also, another hiker saw a mountain lion! He said he was by himself and felt very uneasy for awhile afterward.