Saturday, July 14th: This morning was the coldest morning I've had in a while. I woke up to condensation completely covering the fly of my tent. It took a lot of will power to get up this morning. I sat by the warm morning fire until about 9am. 5.6 miles later I arrived at Tualumne Meadows where I met a nice couple of school teachers who gave me oranges and string cheese! From there I hitched to Lee Vining to eat at the famous deli. They had one vegetarian option, a veggie burger. It wasn't very good but the ice cream was fantastic! I sat there at the deli until about 3:30pm. Then I got a hitch back into Yosemite and hiked 6 miles to the bear infested camp site. I'm not at all concerned about bears. The past 10 miles of trail has been flooded with tourists and day/weekend hikers. The camp site tonight is an actual organized camp with running water and a privy! What?! So, all the thru hikers made a fire (no one else had a fire) and we cooked our dinners in it and drank some whiskey. It was amazing that none of the 100 or so other people here made a fire.
I am roughly 75 miles from Bridgeport and am going to try to make it there in 3 days. I'm really pushing to be in Tahoe for my birthday, which is completely doable. Jeremy from New Zealand (who now has the trail name Typo) is also planning on getting to Tahoe on the same day as me. His birthday is the day after mine so we are hoping to have a little co-birthday shindig. It would take quite a bit to outdo the epicnes of my birthday last year on the AT. I don't suppose it would be overly wise to try.
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