May 5, 2016

Rickets was right. The rest of us woke to rain at 1:30am. We went to back to sleep after each covering ourselves in some sense (Eeyore with a rain fly next to him).

It was a slow morning getting going. We were all at different paces during the cloudy morning until we met up at the road. Ninja Tank, a former thru-hiker and current trail angel, gave us rides to Casa de la Luna, another trail angel house.

We hung out there for a long while with a large collection of other hikers. Among these hikers were Napoleon, Moaglee, and Goliath, three guys I had hiked with on the Appalachian Trail in 2014 - crazy how these things work out.

It started getting chilly and we decided it was better to get back on trail rather than get sucked into our second home in two days. Ninja Tank gave us a ride around the closure before heading back home for work the next day.

It was disjoint hiking with the threat of rain looming. Fog had begun rolling in by the time we got to camp and the temperature had dropped a lot. The hike to water at the site turned out to be almost a mile so Loopy and Rickets took one for the group and filled all a liter up for each of us. Bedtime was dictated by the temperature finally dropping low enough that sleeping bags became necessary.