We hiked the 70 miles to Helena in less than 3 days and are now enjoying a rest day to heal up and relax with good town food.
The trail was pretty steep and hilly and made progress a little slow from time to time but at least the weather played along this time and spared us getting rained on except for a little sprinkling on the last day. We took an alternate to the official CDT to get to the highway before nightfall, bit that caused Ninjas feet to blister up.
That is why we spent time this noon to buy new gear for the coming section. Ninja got some shoes and insoles and I got some new shorts, shirts and shoes to look less like homeless hikertrash – at least for a while. It is almost a little unsettling looking like a normal person for once.
We still need to head to Walmart and resupply and also send out a package with food to Lima – an upcoming town that has no real grocery store. Other than that we will continue to rest our weary bones and are planning to head out tomorrow.
