April 10, 2007

I woke up with sand everywhere!  The strong winds blew my tent all night long.  It made no sense trying to shake it off though.  I began my hike with Ed and we hiked alone through more of the San Felipe Hills.  The Sierra Club stocks a water cache about 14 miles from Scissor's Crossing.  Ed and I enjoyed a long lunch together.  I decided to do some doctoring on my feet, too.  I used my new pocketknife to cut a hole in my blood blister.  I felt immediate relief as the blood drained from my toe.  I cleaned it and several more blisters with an antiseptic wipe and applied Neosporin and Band-Aids.  My feet were good-to-go.  We hiked into Barrel Springs after a good mileage day between 17 and18.