Now we have all packed our camping backpacks FULL to the brim with everything we will all need to camp for a week(each pack weighed probably 50-60 lbs) from food, clothes, booze, d-rugs, literally everything we would need. Now as we are finishing up at the car the very LAST thing to pack is the tarp, now if you can imagine a 10x20 tarp(which was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to big) which maybe weighs 3 or 4 lbs MAX, but that is A LOT to hike 11 miles. SOOOOOOOO Chad's is the only pack that can fit the tarp, but he says its too heavy and we wont need it. By this time I was so ready to go that I didn't argue, we had our hammocks and so we would be good. So we start off up the trail, now the first 1000 feet of this trail SUCK and I thought I was going to die right then at the top of the first hill, but I didn't. Now remember this is 10 in the morning that we start this hike.
Now remember I told you that Danny smokes 100 cigarettes a day? So if you can imagine anout of shape dude who smokes a lot trying to hike the most difficult trail on the plannet, needless to say the going was slow for Danny. Now Chad and I are making good time and hustling along, and our plan was to get to the halfway point and camp for the night and trek the rest in the morning. There is a small outpost with like a gazebo and shelter at mile 6 or so. So we figured we had plenty of time to hike half way since we left late........ WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! beer break
