Last night before I dosed off in the hut I talked to a flip flop hiker, Britany. She spent 3 years after college teaching native Inuit kids for 10months a year at a boarding school in the Alaskan interior. She said she got tired of eating moose. The northern lights were awesome. She was talked into going on a cold survival week since the men instructors needed a female chaperone. She said it was brutally cold. They spent their time making Shelter and melting snow into water. She said she never got warm.
Then she joined the peace corps and was assigned to Kusco a new country that formed out of Serbia for Albanians.
I asked her what she was going to do next.
She says she has a boyfriend in Minnesota and may start a traditional life.
Then as I am well into my morning hike I am flagged down by "Next Step" who had talked to Dan and said how great it was that we were hiking. Well it turns out he had just finished 2 years in the peace corps and will be getting his Masters in Business with an emphasis on the business case for environmental sustainability. This guy seems to be headed towards his passion and no doubt will succeed. I told him to talk to Britany at the next hut.
We got to the Hill Top Hut at 5pm. Found our first thru hiker whom started on February 12th. A lot of section and holiday week hikers.
Rained till about 2pm today. Kind of went into zone mode. Dan had us go a mile off the trail to stop at a way stop where we bought expensive tasteless food. But it was nice to get out of the rain.
Dan has us hiking 23m tomorrow
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