Day 5

We hiked about 10 miles today, and headed into Heavenly to resupply.  Funny thing that happened- we ran out of water about a day before and we had miles to do still before we got into town or close to a reliable water source.  We ran into this lady on the trail and started talking with her exchanging info, names and where from's and she gave us some local info.  We pressed on and checked a few houses that had no occupancies for water but sure enough the water was turned off.  A few miles later there was an older man working on his car and we asked him a few questions from which he was.kind enough to answer and we asked for some water from his hose, which he was happy give... thankfully.  We were happy to press on knowing we had plenty of water, finally after 5 miles or so we found the elusive trail head, hiked about a mile in before changing our minds, seemed much quicker to take the highway down to the little village so we turned around and headed down the highway.  We were hiking two hours and we still had about 5 hours to go when a 4 Runner pulls off to the side of the road and the lady from the trail pops out and says "You boys want a rids down into town", kindly wd accept.  To make a story short, turns out we talked to her husband (the one that gave us water, the two were from Rancho Bernardo, and there kids too had gone to Humboldt state, they had just moved up there and she was concerned with the directions her hjsband had given us so she said she was going to go down the highway to see if she.could find us and she did.  Pretty funny, what a small world.  Needless to say, she and her husband really helped us out... people up here are pretty kind.  We resupplied this time with some higher calorie foods, got a pizza and made camp outside of town, today we are going to relax a bit we have been averaging 11 miles a day so we are feeling beat but both of us can tell we feel stronger.  Entering the desolation wilderness soon, pretty excited about that.  Aaron and I have been having some fun, last nivht we played chess all night, Nana well done teaching Aaron chess, he got my queen early on but I rallied back (would have felt really humbled to have lost to my little bro, glad I didn't on the first game), we decided to play at least once a night...