Up around 0430, chilly out, ate some cheerios, NO BUGS! Hiking by 0515 in the dark, but only dark for 15 min or so, easy walking, moving right along today. Took a nice break on a gravel road with a great breeze around 1015 and we'd already hiked 11 miles, we stayed there for 45 minutes! The mosquitos were out in full force again once the sun came up, we put on the deet and basically didn't stop for the rest of the day! If we slowed down to climb over a tree, the mosquitos caught us and feasted! Ahhhhh! I surrender! We never stopped for lunch, just ate our snacks and finally took a break towards the end of the day in a spot that wasn't too buggy. Camped by Island Lake, no good camping spots, we were just tired of running and eventually the crew showed up, we cooked dinner with headnets on and ate dinner with the headnets on! I practically live in the headnet! The funny thing this evening was that Slider cooked too much food and offered some to Thrust (who was 2 tents away) and there were so many bugs, neither one of them wanted to get out of their tent to give/receive the free food! (eventually Thrust made a run for it, but it took awhile!)
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