September 9

The terrain and heat today were such that it didn't allow me to hike the 40 miles I had planned. I made it 35 miles to a road on top of a ridge where I could see a beautiful sunset and am excited for the sunrise in the morning as I can see eastward as well. I'm probably just over 15 miles north of Louis and have his position guessed fairly accurately. This is both from knowing how far he planned on hiking every day and from asking northbound hikers for the whereabouts of Sugar Side Down. Today was exceptionally hot. It was hotter today than anything I have hiked in yet, and now that the sun has set there is finally some relief. The terrain was a little nasty too. My gps is saying I had a +/- of +9,993 ft./-11,145 ft. over 35 miles. No wonder I'm tired and ready for bed. I did one really stupid thing too. In buying supplies for this trip I bought plenty of food, but forgot to resupply on fuel for my alcohol stove. I have enough to cook dinners and maybe one hot breakfast, but it's a good thing I opted for Poptarts over oatmeal for this section. That's all for tonight my dinner is ready and I'm hungry.