November 3

Clocks changed last night, and everyone except the thru-hikers got an extra hour of sleep. Clocks have no meaning, but the hours that the sun is up does. We were up before 6 am hiking and it felt too late because the sun was already rising as we were getting on trail. We all hiked hard for all of the 26 miles to the road into Big Bear where Nat, Jane and Smooth were going to resupply. When we got there, I convinced myself it was a good idea to go into town as well, and Forest decided to come with. All five of us went with trail angel Tiffany Raridon to a Mexican restaurant and then to her house for the night. It's nice to have a roof over our heads and to have stomachs full of good food for a night. It's a little bit surreal to have so little of the trail left to hike. The end is coming so quickly it's sometimes hard to imagine.