Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Zeroing at Deep Creek

Sunday & Monday, May 11-12
Mile 307, Deep Creek Hotsprings

Rowdy red poppy!
"Zero" Day in hiker slang is a loaded phrase. It's a simple concept: don't hike. In fact, do everything that involves little movement, like eating, sleeping, soaking your bod in some delicious mineral hot springs.

Tuneboost went to school in SoCal and has been talking up Deep Creek for weeks. It did not disappoint—six pools of varying degrees, all overlooking a wide, gentle creek with a slackline pitched over a section of it... Totally surreal to hike into, all delirious and bone-tired. Got used to the nudists and eventually joined them, of course.

My lungs have healed, too! Those antibiotics did the trick and that cough is done-zo. I broke out my flute again during a pre-dinner soak with Moxa and Laugh Track and it felt so perfect.

Monday was my first zero of the hike, and it was actually a bit of a struggle to convince myself to not walk on later in the day. The trail has such a pull for me now; it's magnetic! But the healing soaks in the hot springs were so essential, and I'm going to bed with a happy heart and gelatinous muscles. Heal up, buddies! Tomorrow we hit the trail again!

Goodbye, beautiful Deep Creek!

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