Hiker, and co-founder of American Spartan Inc, Captain Tommy Muir, continues to keep us updated on the day-to-day of the 425+ mile Spartan Hike, via emails spent from his phone.
"Day 6 or as we're calling it, day five of the storm as it's rained at some point for five straight days. Today, we emerged from our tents to...wait for it...that's right, rain. We quickly heated up some chicken noodle soup, our prefered cold and wet morning breakfast, on our campstove as starting a fire would have been a feudal attempt. We polished the cans off on the ride to the starting point, dawned our rain gear and hit the trail to mow down today's 18.6 miles. The rain subsided for exactly 7 minutes and 26 seconds, we counted. The rest of the day felt like various scenes from the film Forrest Gump when he was describing the various kinds of rain he encountered in Vietnam as we seemed to deal with all at different parts of the day. Dan and I had a great conversation about how we may have allowed the ideal SoCal weather to impact our judgement and planning. Being that it literally rains 20 times a year and nearly always is an ideal 68-72 degrees, we think we lost our perspective as to the climate in the rest of the state. We joked that NorCal might actually be the Pacific Northwest and that we might just be cutting circles in Seattle. Either way, we accomplished the days mission and made it to our campsite where our tents were bracing themselves for another test at their skill of repelling the rain. We put a cover over the fire pit and with the aide of a starter log, got a fire going. We made a hot meal, joked about our wet gear and selves and called it a day. Hoping the weathermen and women (didn't forget you Indra) were dead wrong when they predicted the rain to continue."
Tommy Muir
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