Vernon

Hello all I hope you are all having a good day. Things have been going well with Turtle and myself to this point on the trail. We made it to the road crossing where Gene picked us up at about 3pm. We are spending the night with Gene and Fran Fay and had a good dinner and then slack packing (hiking only carrying water) tomorrow and being picked up again at the end of the day.

The hiking today went fairly well with us getting an early start out of High Point Shelter. I again made the first 2 hours or so without knee pain and I was hoping that I might be able to make it through the day without since I had used IcyHot and taken Aleve in the morning before hiking but no such luck. At about 9 or 9:30 the knee pain started and came and went pretty much the rest of the day. I bought a knee brace in Vernon so I am hoping that will help but it is hard to say since it only hurts when I have the pack on and am hiking and the other strange thing is that it does not hurt when I am standing still.

Anyway enough about the knee pain Turtle and I are looking forward to slack packing tomorrow which will also get us pretty much back on schedule and we will just hike an extra 2 miles on Saturday.