Post Written by Cameron(Drama Queen)
I finally did my first dirty thirty! and without Simba! I am pretty proud of my self. Rain Maker was sick so Simba stayed back and so I decided to hike out alone. I hiked for an hour when i decided to do my first 30 mile day because I was feeling fantastic and actually enjoying the hike (this rarely happens to me.) The Ohio Crew Cornfed/Explagrance and Ryan who we have basically been hiking with/next to our entire trip so far had decided to hike out an hour to thirty minutes before me. We had been hiking together for almost a week or two until this morning but I caught them within a few hours and told them of my plan, they didn't want to at first but then i forced/convinced them to do it with me. When we were about a mile away from where we had planned to siesta, Cornfed saw a small bear and we decided we should all stick together in case there was a mama bear walking around. So we get to our siesta point and set down our packs and 2 minutes later before we had started to do anything the bear is on the trail walking south bound toward us about 20 ft. away we were loving it! There was also two other people there with us named Lionheart and Scrubs. The bear kept walking around us trying to get to our packs with our food in it but we were occupying him. This bear was not shy or scared at all and was actually pretty aggressive so we had to take shifts occupying the bear while it was within 5-10 ft. of us to go get water. The bear would basically pounce and charge at the same time trying to scare us away it was the coolest thing. I have never been so close to a bear I could reach out and touch him literally. But once we all got water and after playing around with the bear for 15-20 min. we hiked out. I was so happy we got to see him and was like ha the one day Simba doesn't hike with us we see a bear super close up! i knew he would be so pissed when he found out and he was, i loved it. We also successfully completed our 30 mile day and i felt so accomplished. It was a fantastcic day.
I finally did my first dirty thirty! and without Simba! I am pretty proud of my self. Rain Maker was sick so Simba stayed back and so I decided to hike out alone. I hiked for an hour when i decided to do my first 30 mile day because I was feeling fantastic and actually enjoying the hike (this rarely happens to me.) The Ohio Crew Cornfed/Explagrance and Ryan who we have basically been hiking with/next to our entire trip so far had decided to hike out an hour to thirty minutes before me. We had been hiking together for almost a week or two until this morning but I caught them within a few hours and told them of my plan, they didn't want to at first but then i forced/convinced them to do it with me. When we were about a mile away from where we had planned to siesta, Cornfed saw a small bear and we decided we should all stick together in case there was a mama bear walking around. So we get to our siesta point and set down our packs and 2 minutes later before we had started to do anything the bear is on the trail walking south bound toward us about 20 ft. away we were loving it! There was also two other people there with us named Lionheart and Scrubs. The bear kept walking around us trying to get to our packs with our food in it but we were occupying him. This bear was not shy or scared at all and was actually pretty aggressive so we had to take shifts occupying the bear while it was within 5-10 ft. of us to go get water. The bear would basically pounce and charge at the same time trying to scare us away it was the coolest thing. I have never been so close to a bear I could reach out and touch him literally. But once we all got water and after playing around with the bear for 15-20 min. we hiked out. I was so happy we got to see him and was like ha the one day Simba doesn't hike with us we see a bear super close up! i knew he would be so pissed when he found out and he was, i loved it. We also successfully completed our 30 mile day and i felt so accomplished. It was a fantastcic day.
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