Smokey and hot

I made Monday a rest day. I checked w/ Sunnyside to learn that my post was going out UPS to a QBP service center. Worst case it is a black hole. I installed the Thomson rigid post and avoided thinking of riding.

Tues. AM I received another therapeutic massage, this time by another guy using no elbows. He spent some time on my shoulder. He said that he believes the proper muscles are attached sufficiently. Perhaps I had been going for the gusto in my performing the exercises. I changed to work in a smaller range of motion which is really where the affected muscles need to work.

Tues afternoon I scored a DR appointment to understand what’s going on in my digestive system. Just waiting for results of fecal cultures. She told me to get back on probiotics. Tuesday was very smokey.

I lost my favorite spot for 2 nights to a white Sprinter. I slept at option 2.

Wed the forecast called for a window from the smoke and haze between 11 and 1:00. I made plans to hit Maston in that window.

I made a power point slide using 2 previous posted pics as an educational tool for horse riders.

Maston was clear and hot, in 80’s, and had the trails to myself. I missed the seat dropper several places because I had one. Riding high is foreign. Not a comfortable change riding a riding post keeping my body so high. 13 miles.

I stopped at Nature’s grocery for probiotics. I asked for help and received an education from a knowledgeable clerk on digestive flora. I have a protocol of strains. Perhaps gut problem is bacteria missing.

Tues night @1o Barrels a woman sat outside w/ a guitar in her hand and at her feet was a suspected PCT pack. Yes, she, 20yo, was hiking the PCT w/ her bf. I hefted her pack which had food for the next stretch to the gorge. Heavy. She said her core pack weighs about 25lbs; my 30lbs is acceptable. Great visiting w/ a thru hiker. Time came for her to leave to walk to meet her friends and she just hoisted the pack w/ little effort on to her back and walked away.

Ah, corn squeezings and medical marijuana makes for clumsy key strokes. I’ll sleep well later.

My back feels up to a backpack trip. Tomorrow I will review systems and if in accord I will head out for a 2 day backpack trip in the 3 Sisters Wilderness. Forecast calls for slight chance of showers. Will hike a few PCT miles on my loop.

I finished Go Set a Watchman.