- GET 2024 day 8, Oct 8, Tuesday
- Start Home
- End Home
- Rest and recuperation, no lopping, no sawing
A Zero Day refers to a hiker hiking zero miles in a day, or taking a day off, typically in a town off-trail. Here on this unusual adventure it can also refer to zero lopping and zero sawing.
My family treats me to dinner at La Pasadita in Socorro. Good therapy.
Equipment Issues:
- My Platypus squeeze bag to my Quickdraw water filter is leaking. I thought this bag would work better than a Sawyer bags, because the material is thicker, but apparently not. Platypus: consider double seams.
- A buckle and strap on my AtomPack managed to work its way out of its fastener, and is lost on the trail.
- My shaded safety glasses got lost on trail the last day, but I found them again.
- The short 6″ Fiskar saw lost its hinge nut on the trail, with photo in a previous post.
- Numerous rips and tears in shirt and pants. I could not find iron-on patches in time to return to the trail.
- The plants I am lopping are really tough. Maybe I should switch to a geared lopper. At any rate, my current lopper now needs sharpening.
Tomorrow back to the trail.