Hello, this is Joy. No texts from the hikers yesterday or today, but I do receive their gps coordinates, throughout the day. It seems that they just stopped for the night (7:20pm pacific time/10:20pm eastern) and got in 22 miles today. I believe this is their longest distance so far. Yesterday they got in 20 miles, so they are really moving along nicely now. Lighter packs? Kendra’s knee must be feeling better? Don’t know for sure, I can only assume.
It looks like they will make their next town on Saturday. (which may not be good because these mountain towns fill up with weekend tourists and rooms are not readily available.) I’ll work on finding them a place tomorrow. But, whenever they do land there, they plan on taking a zero day (no hiking day) to give their bodies a day to recover. Plus, that will be day 7 with no shower and dirty clothes, so they will be ready!
That’s the plan right now,,, or at least that is what Ron’s spreadsheet says! We’ll see how the rest of this week works out for them.
Oh, I forgot to mention — they passed the 300 mile marker on Wednesday — YAY!