Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Up at 6:20. Extremely humid, 64 degrees going up to 78. Cloudy with chance of showers on and off.
I might have gotten 90 minutes sleep.
Tent a little damp by the doors. Mainly splash water bounced through doors. Not sure what to do about that. Shirt from yesterday damp.
Heard back from Zerodayhostile in Pen Mar. Room reserved for Wednesday night!
Started packing while breakfast cooked. Boiled water for 4:40. Had a dehydrated breakfast skillet (510) plus dehydrated sausage (240) and tea. Good! Ate at 7:25, finished at 7:50.
Great trail magic at Reno Road. Nice family with drinks and watermelon. Chatted a while and they prayed for me and my foot. Nice!
Lunch at Dahlgren campground and a 30 minute rest. Just a stinger waffle and nut butter packet.
Rested at Washington monument park shelter for 30 minutes and got water. My pack fighting me.
Fought with pack all day. Lots of tweaking. Expanded torso on pack today at 4:00. Makes load lifters better but it may be too big as it slides down my hips and I get lots of weight on shoulders. Also my back and shoulders hurt today. I had a lot of weight on shoulders instead of hips. Need a professional pack fitting.
Got to shelter at 5:30. Chilled and had recovery drink. Found a tent site and made camp. Took about 50 minutes to fully set camp. I’m trying my quilt tonight. Set tent up better today…lots of tension on all stakes is key. Charged headlamp while chilling at camp.
My Apple Watch died as I forgot to put it in airplane mode. Charging now so I can get my hike data of it!
Fully changed clothes including underwear. Got chafing down there:( hiking clothes are all wet from sweat and humidity. It’s gonna rain tonight so I can’t rig a clothes line. Trying to dry them a bit on a rock.
Im beat and not very hungry. Eating a bag of Fritos. Not sure I will eat anything else. Got tomorrow’s food ready. Cold breakfast.
Got chafing due to humidity. Will try wet wipes and squirrel nut butter later. Should I have kept gold bond powder?
Tried to sleep about 9:15. Dozed off till 11:30. Eventually got back to sleep.
Issues and Lessons Learned:
- add back second pair of underwear
- need a second sweat band
- second pair of socks needs to be just like primary socks
- too much food
- Need a better system for storing and organizing food
- Protein shakes good, using camp cup and stirring bad
- how to prevent crotch chafing when wet, humid, raining
- foot pain – talk to doctor – balls of feet, heels, Achilles
- lighten pack 10 lbs
- Find a different pack
Technical Notes:
- Water liters: 2
- Miles: 12.5
- Time: 9:45
- Elevation gain: 2254
- Elevation descent:
- Calories consumed: ??
- Calories burned: ??
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