Day 4

Calf Mountain Shelter to Blackrock Hut 13.5 miles

The boys scouts started out as we were making breakfast. We heard they were going on the the same shelter as we planned. Pat, the man we met on the trail the day before, was also trying to make it there, but he wasn't used to the 13 mile days, and was concerned that he couldn't make it.

While hiking I totally zone. I get random songs stuck in my head for hours. In fact, I don't remember most of this day. I do recall that my mental playlist was the following:
Jerusalem by William Blake (an English Patriotic Anthem)
I've Been Working on the Railroad (A popular children's classic)
Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Chorale) by J.S. Bach (a nerdy organist's classic)
I Used to Get High by the John Butler Trio (while climbing high up a mountain, get it?)

Somehow, we caught up to the boy scouts near the end of the day. We started out way after them. How was this possible? Well, we decided to be competitive. Our goal was to get to camp as fast as we could, set up shelter, and make it look easy. We ran down the mountain, and up another one, and set up our tent all before the final boy scout made it. What did we prove? Nothing at all. But it felt good.