7 miles

It certainly wasn't a heroic distance to here, but it was kind of interesting. I saw a turkey which seemed totally unafraid (more about turkeys in a minutes), and I saw many, many rabbits on Bear's Den Mtn complete with hawks circling overhead trying to eat the little rabbits. No bears, however.

It was kind of weird, all the rabbits. I've only seen them at night in the past, and I had assumed they were nocturnal.

When I was nearly to the shelter, I saw another turkey, but this one charged and chased me down the trail about 8 feet. I assume there are little turkeys (what are they called?) in the bushes, but you really haven't lived until you've been chased by a psychotic turkey.

There is another girl in the shelter with me, also a long-distance solo hiker redhead aussie trail named Walkabout. Otter is also here, and he is tenting. In addition to them, there's a veritable sea of one man tents up on the hill. I'm in the shelter because it's going to rain and because all the tent sites looked crappy to me.

Hope there's no mice.