9-10-06
Start: Beaver, UT
Destination: Milford, UT
Elevation: 4965 ft.
Miles: 24.3
Weather: Storm dodging, sunny, cloudy, nice!
We got a good, early start this morning. But we quickly learned a good lesson. Listen to this one (it's funny now, after it happened)!
First of all, hiking can be humiliating for a girl. Sometimes you have to go to the bathroom, and there's just no place to go with cover. I specifically remember a time in Kansas along the hwy when mom and I had to prop our packs in a "V" and go... and happily wave to passers-by. They knew what we were doing, anyway. Why not be friendly?
Anyway, back to today. We learned that if you have to go potty in a ditch, with an incline, be sure to face the backpack UPhill. If you face it downhill... you end up with your pants around your ankles, falling backwards from a squatting position, rolling into the bottom of the ditch with your bare backside facing the road, praying no cars go by because you are completely stuck having a 40-pound backpack on, and being unable to get up, laying in a ditch - laughing and crying at the same time. And then, to top it all off, the irrigation sprinkler in the field behind you turns on, while you're stuck in the ditch with your butt hanging out, and it soaks you. Yup, it happened. For confidentiality reasons, we won't use any names... :)
The good thing about this situation, is that the day can't really get worse - only better. And it did. We giggled about the ditch thing all day, the weather treated us well, and we hiked happily over a small mountain range. People driving by stopped to say "hi," including a ranger, a local Yardley couple, another couple, and a small family. The people in Milford are very nice.
Tomorrow we're heading into the Wah-Wah desert - where there is NO wah-wah. It should be called the nowah-wah desert, don't you think? Anyway, we have Jeff, from Beaver dropping water for us, so we'll be good to go. And we probably won't have phone reception for a few days, so try not to worry. Jeff, our water dropper also drives by twice a day to do the mail route, so he might be keeping an eye on us. We have great angels!
Hey - remember - backpack faces UPhill! :)
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