Journal June 8th Coming into Lordsburg Again
Along the trail we came across a western diamondback rattlesnake on the side of a jeep road, rattling and hissing. He was disgruntled, as if we had awoken him from an early morning nap and coiled up, but if he stretched out he would have been 5 to 6 feet in length.
We arrived in Lordsburg tired and with tight muscles after pushing to get 12 miles in by noon, the final 6 miles without a break. It was a race to get into town and out of the sun before it was over head, barely making it before the sun became too blistering.
We celebrated by the application of ice from the motel to water we got from turning a knob in an air conditioned room. If anything defines man’s dominance, and separates us from the apes it’s our ability to so easily create ice water. This sounds so simple because we take for granted the infrastructure which allows it, but try going for a week and walking 84 miles with unrelenting sun and no water sources except those you placed, and few shade source and then you come to appreciate something so seemingy simple as the ice cube. We sure did!
12 miles
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