Day 95

What a magical day. RJ and I decided to do a short 16 mile day today to recover from yesterday and we got trail magic 4 times! We started out hiking down past the intersection for Lourey where Busch had apparently dropped off a 12 pack of mtn dew for hikers when he took a zero down there. The trail then had us hike up to one of the best views I've seen in a while at Mary's Rocks.

We then hiked to a picnic area for lunch where we were handed ice cold water as soon as we reached it by some nice picnickers. Then as we sat down to lunch at the picnic area, a group of Koreans that were having a picnic there invited us to join them. It was so sudden we hadn't even had time to get our pack's open before they asked us to join. They hooked us up with a full pork buffet, fresh salad with a nice spicy dressing, a great whole grain rice dish with beans and boiled peanuts, sweet and normal potatoes, and some plums as desert. They even gave me the left over plums and potatoes to take with me as they were heading home after the picnic. It was fantastic. From there we hiked to the skyland restaurant and had a piece of their triple chocolate cake, chocolate cake + chocolate moose + chocolate ice cream. We didn't really have room for it but it was as good as described so I managed to force myself to eat it. But the magic wasn't done yet. When we got to our camp spot there was some PBR and pepsi chilling in the spring.