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                                             Black Bear Ranch to Forks of Salmon to Somes Bar, CA

Wednesday March 14, 2007

                   I am leaving. I switched out to a new tape, so I'll be logging a lot more now.

     9:44am  I am leaving. I am free at last, free at last! God 'ol mighty, I am free at last! Me and Travis are hiking away from the house. We're going to the trailhead over by the road. We've got some weed to smoke and we're looking for a cigarette. Hopefully we'll find a snipe on the trail.

     10:35am  I forgot to tell you that we stopped at God's Hand for a smokebreak. Travis has discovered a tick on Pan's, aka Token's wiener. He's having a little operation here. Removing the tick from the wiener. Tell me how everything comes out, Travis.

     11:09am  Travis and I did a little sprinting, a little running on the trail. I got this big burst of energy because I am free of Carol now, hehe. I sat and rested and we smoked some weed and drank some water. We just passed the halfway mark right now.

     11:56am  Forgot to mention that about five or ten minutes ago we stopped at Eagle Rock, this little summit where you can see the trail. We're about a mile from the road.

     12:23pm  At long last we got to the end of the trail.

     3:56pm  We took off walking and we're going to rest at Mile Marker 3. In total we've walked how many miles? Ten miles total since the BBR. We still haven't gotten a ride. There have been no cars. Maybe like two cars total and we've been walking all day. Crazy.

     4:09pm  Leaving from our rest at Mile Marker 3. Three miles to the town of Forks of Salmon. We'll go find some snipes at the beer tree.

     4:15pm  We walked by Jim Hensher's. Oh yeah, I saw that Adopt a Highway sign with his name on it. He just hooked me up with a couple cigarettes.

     4:28pm  We are leaving from our rest at the Hensher place. We got cigarettes and Pan was playing with the other dogs. Getting mounted, hehe.

     4:30pm  Passing by the phone booth.

     4:37pm  Roger is being nice enough to pull over and give us a ride. I appreciate it, brother. He's the produce guy. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

                   I didn't mention we are already in Somes Bar. We just got dropped off by Roger, the produce guy. I munched out on some cherry tomatoes, hehe. I didn't think he'd mind. Anyway, we are walking to the market. Somes Bar Market. Quarter mile away.

                   We just got to Salmon River Road.

     6:02pm  What was your name, again? Shelly here at the market in Somes Bar hooked me up with a couple cigarettes. I appreciate it, Shelly. Everybody gets credit, thanks

     6:14pm  Passing the sign that says Fata-Yan-Nun Karuk Spiritual Trail.

     6:26pm  Passing Junction Elementary School. Wait, it's seven twenty six, not six twenty six. Travis said President Bush knocked it up an hour. What was his rationale for it? Energy crisis, ohhhh.

     7:49pm  We just got dropped off about thirty miles away from Happy Camp by Woody. He hooked us up. We saw him at Somes Bar Market and he told us that he as going that way later and that if he saw us he'd give us a ride. He sure enough did. Thanks Woody. Everybody gets credit, thanks. He dropped us off at some place he knew we could camp. He said it was private property but that it didn't matter.

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