Resupply part 2

Trashman is spending the night in town, but my limited money disappears too quick around mealtime so I'm heading out asap. Hiking has been good and bad lately. Today was the best 10 miles of the trip in my opinion - a long ridge traverse high above treeline walking on vocanic rubble (the granite left a day ago for volcanic mountains), looking down on frozen lakes and distant green hills, crossing the last of the snowfields and deep suncups in the melting snow. I slid on my ass (intentionally!) down about 400 feet of snow and made about the quickest mountain decent possible. The terrain has been rugged but nice, the only downside, A HUGE DOWNSIDE, being the little fucking bloodsuckers that have clouded me for a week. I told Sarah on the phone about finding the worst bugs of my life in a Yosemite meadow and swearing to get on the first bus I saw and get as far away as possible... that turned out to be less of an exception and more the start of the buggy hell that's been my life for days.