Day 78, leaving S. Tahoe Lake

July 15

Echo Lake mile 1094 to Aloha Lake mile 1100

Hiked 6 miles

I woke up at 7 and started walking around town looking for a iPhone charging cable. I found one at a gas station for $15. So that's taken care of. I ran into Bugs on the street. Talked to her for a little bit. They all stayed in a hotel down the street. She was looking for a coffee shop.

Back in the room I can now charge my dead phone. I laid on the floor next to the outlet and reached my issues on the runners websites. So it turns out I have developed Planters Fasciitis in my right foot and I have shin splint in my left. Well that's just great. Planters fasciitis takes a long time to heal due to the fact that there isn't much blood flow in the bottom of your feet. I got on YouTube and researched how to use the KT tape for those two issues. So now I'm rapped up on both legs. Hopefully the tape stays on for a awhile. This shit is expensive. $20 for a roll. But I know it's good it helped my achilies issue that I had for 700 miles heal up in a week!

It's 11 and StealToe and Giggles finally wake up. They are leaving today as well. So we plan to hike out together.

We took the bus to the small outfitters in town and they have a list of trail/ride angels that give hikers rides to the trail. In 15 we had a ride to the trail. I bought a foot long subway sand which and packed out half of it for dinner tonight.

We got to Echo lake at 1 just in time for it to start raining. I also realized I left my trekking poles here yesterday lol. So I got those back. I went to the small PO there to retrieve my resupply boxes and forward my bounce boxes to Old Station since I don't need anything in them. However they only had one of my 4 boxes!? It was the box Jordan sent me with the hot sauce, hammer gel, coffee and what not. Which isn't what I needed. I'm expecting two boxes with 6 days of food. And where is my bounce box? They where really busy at the store so I felt bad asking. But I really need her to check again for my boxes. She reluctantly went back and found my bounce box. Shit that still isn't what I need. I called Jordan she checked the tracking and it shows they have arrived at twin bridges. Which is where they get there boxes from. I asked her one more time to go look. And she finally came back with my other boxes. Dam I'm glad I was persistent. It only took 3 hours to get this all figured out. I sent out my boxes and sorted my food and I bought a few packages of roman noodles (poor mans pad Thai and peanut butter and hot sauce) from the store so I can have two dinners a day. ;)

The rain stopped and we started hiking around 5:50pm we only planned on going 6 miles.

We arrived at aloha lake. Wow this place is sweet.








SteelToe and Giggles.



My fancy KT tape job. Steal Toe calls them my bionic legs lol. I wish. Bionic legs don't hurt this bad. Well actually the KT tape really helps. They feel good so far. Only went 6 miles today.



We camped by the lake and plan to be on the trail by 6 tomorrow morning.


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