June 1, 2007

Today, I hiked 14.2 miles which was short of our group's goal.  My body had bonked.  We played leap-frog with Marcia and Ken Powers and caught up to Patrick and Clara who had started a day earlier out of Kennedy Meadows.  The trees in the Sierras all take on their own personalities. Even the dead trees display character.  At one point, today, 30-30 told Fireball and me to look upward.  I saw what can be described as a cloud rainbow.  As I looked up, I saw the letter C attached to a cloud.  My sister's name was Cheryl so I took that as a Hello and a smile from her.  The cloud rainbow was an amazing phenomenon.  I did not capture it with a photo but the cloud rainbow will always remain in my mind's eye.  At day's end, I hung my Ursack bear bag and prayed my food would be there in the morning.