Day 21

At roughly Mile 370, Arthur is having a truly amazing time on the trail. 


"(Tuesday) was awesome. We did 25.8 so basically 26 miles with 6500 feet of climbing. It was so pretty. Amazing pine forest at the top. I really felt great today-- it might be the best day so far. And like so little descent it was all climbing which I like. Really have my trail legs and am in the swing of things. I'm having so much fun on the trail."

His group is starting to think about how they will handle the Sierra Nevada section of the trail. In a few weeks they'll reach the southern end of the Sierras at Kennedy Meadows. Record amounts of snow hit the region this winter and many parts of the trail north of Kennedy Meadows are still covered. If conditions don't improve they may decide to get a ride to a point further north where there's less snow and, hopefully complete the section they skipped later in the year. 

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