Lots of up today and lots of time for thinking. Great views everywhere,beautiful forest walking. We passed 3 streams! It was nice not having to carry so much water anymore. Only about a third of today's miles were below 10000 feet.
A fighter jet passed a couple hundred feet above our heads 3 times today. It went from nice calm sounds of breeze passing through pine forest to suddenly the sky being ripped apart and thundering through your heart and ears, absolutely terrifying. Every single time we just happened to be right under the passes they were cutting through. They felt close enough that surely the pilot saw us jump and made another couple passes just for fun.
I got thinking about how amazing it is that humans have found out how to make large heavy hunks of metal fly. Through the air. That's so amazing.
A fighter jet passed a couple hundred feet above our heads 3 times today. It went from nice calm sounds of breeze passing through pine forest to suddenly the sky being ripped apart and thundering through your heart and ears, absolutely terrifying. Every single time we just happened to be right under the passes they were cutting through. They felt close enough that surely the pilot saw us jump and made another couple passes just for fun.
I got thinking about how amazing it is that humans have found out how to make large heavy hunks of metal fly. Through the air. That's so amazing.
Today I noticed these trees twist almost exclusively counter clock wise (when looking top down). I only found a few that did not twist and even less that twisted clockwise. I wonder why? What is so special about twisting counter clock wise? Why is that evolutionarily more advantageous? Or is it less advantageous? Are all the alive trees that I can't tell which way they twist all clockwise twisters? Is there a study on this? Has some grad student come out here counted, mapped and listed the cause of death of the trees that twist one way or the other? I wonder if that could ever get funding, probably not.
I also wonder on average how many times has each atom been used? Has any gas atom ever just been air and nothing else? And if you could map all the atoms I've ever encountered what would it look like? Where have they ended up? Is any of the water I'm drinking right now ever been dinosaur pee?
I have so many questions.
The wind has a new crisp and clean feeling, like it has just recently become acquainted with snow and wants to tell you about it. It's going to be another pretty cold night here at 10200 feet. I didn't make a fire it was fairly windy until the sunset and then it was time to sleep.
We met 'tindey' today from the UK he quit his job last year to travel south America and now he is here.
I am looking forward to getting to Lone Pine tomorrow, a shower and laundry are sounding really nice. Also I've been craving flavor blasted gold fish crackers.
