Day 42 6/26 20 mi.

Last night was very cold and it was hard to get going this morning until the sun started to hit our campsite and warm us up. We walked 3 miles to a an area where a group of about 8 thru hikers camped last night and were still getting going. They had just got done filtering water from one of the nastiest looking water sources we'd seen in a long time. I was glad we carried enough water to make it to the next stream.

After our big day yesterday and the fact that we stayed above 10,000 feet most of the day we were both feeling tired and kinda dragging.

Carly got moving a few minutes before I did before lunch and saw a bear cub! Luckily she never saw the mom. We did about 3 miles from our lunch spot to a stream that was just off the trail there we came across some trail maintainers who had a camp set up near the water. They weren't eating as much as they had predicted and gave us 3 oranges each, a bag of awesome trail mix each, about a pound on roast beef, grits, and an avocado!!! All that awesome food put a little pep back into our step and we finished the ten remaining miles to camp surprisingly quickly.

The landscape we have been walking through the past 2 days has been unreal it looks almost fake it's so beautiful.