39 miles is no joke! It had been since running into Idaho Falls that I'd done anything that long, and we had a rest day the next day then. I still had 4 days to go for rest this time around.
After one last visit to the Crowheart store I continued down my good friend Highway 26. The first source of human interaction was about 12 miles in at the rest area where two families from Green River gave me another bag of cherries.
At the marathon point I decided to take a nap under the only tree in what seemed like 100 miles at the St. Edwards Catholic Church near the turnoff for State Highway 133. It was a beautiful church, and the lady in the adjacent home offered it to me as a camp site for the night. I politely declined as I still had a half marathon to go.
I turned up 133 for five miles before turning onto 134 where the dogs were as bad as they've been all trip. There was a family whose pack of three had a little strategy of coming at me from different angles, but all but one let up pretty quickly.
I arrived at Ocean Lake's first camping area where I called a friend of Tyler and Casey's to potentially camp in their yard. I left her a message and was driven out from the lake side by the bugs.
I proceeded to the house, but no one was home and decided to check out the second camp site directly across the road. This one was much better and had a great spot to swim and rinse out my foul smelling clothes.
I set up my tent and cooked dinner at a fire pit overlooking the lake (see below). I watched the thunder-less lightning strikes in the distance in awe but knew they were headed my way. Fantastic! At least this time around, unlike in Moran, I had a permanent structure to hide in if worse came to worst.
I used my new tent for the first time and it felt like a five star hotel compared to my previous one. Fortunately lightning never arrived, but really high winds and rain did. The tent handled it like a champ.
As gross as the chair was, it was quite relaxing!
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