Obviously we survived the night, and didn't get murdered by the other dudes that camped there. In the morning we made some hot oatmeal and coffee to fight off the chill. We also got a good fire going. The pot on the fire in the photo has pond water and eggs boiling in it, which belonged to the three other guys. The water was brown and dyed their eggs brown as well.
We had decided in the evening that we would only be camping one night for this trip, so we weren't in a huge hurry in the morning. We got out of there around 9:00 to see how much rough trail we had left. Our camp mates told us it was only a few kilometers to a more groomed trail, but they were eating food cooked in pond water, so I wasn't sure if they were trustworthy or not.
Before the trail smoothed out it began to feel like we were travelling over a small mountain range. As it turned out, the hikers were right and this only lasted a couple kilometers.
These blue and white markers are used to mark the trail throughout, and they can be quite hard to find at times. As you can see in the second photo it was a tiny ball of ribbon, and often they would be 1/2 of a mile apart or more. It got quite difficult when were were deep in the forest and the trail would break off in 3 or 4 directions.
Somewhere between these two photos we got closer to the sea and it got extremely windy. It was all I could do just to keep moving forward. Even though we were quite drained, we still had to take an end of the ride photo. Like I said before I would recommend riding this route to anyone. I ended up putting on just over 76 miles (122 km) for the trip.
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