Janelle Doesn't like Peanut Butter!

This is unfortunate, given our lunch today of peanut butter and peanut butter crackers. Poor Janelle. It was a very unpleasant lunch for her. Of course, this means that she can't be a true long-distance hiker. I think that there's a box you have to check on the application, and if you don't like peanut butter, they throw you out of the club.

We spent most of the day walking through alternating burn zones and pine forest. There were abandoned quarries too. There aren't as many bikers in this part, so we spent much less time dodging them. The water's been a bit icky though. Probably because it's been raining so much. I've been throwing tantrums at the number of floaties in my water, so Brent finally started filtering it through his bandanna. It was much better after that; not nearly so chewy.

Our campsite tonight was really nice, though. It was roomy enough for both our tents, with a kitcheny-nook off to one side. There was even dry stacked firewood under a boulder! So we had a fire with dinner, Sukhi's curries (tastee!). Unfortunately, we also discovered at dinner that our fuel source had changed completely. We use yellow Heet as our fuel, and we had some we got at Walmart, and it was totally different than the normal stuff - gummy, and sticky! It burned terribly with lots of flaring, and it gunked up our stove something awful. We'll have to pick up some new stuff at the first opportunity!

Today was a 14 miler.

Kim