Luzerne to 4-Mile. Today started out great, beautiful curvy woodsy trail for the first few miles, drop down into the clear rushing creek crossing for a quick drink. The Tramp went right in, Lady of course went right in pooped, peed, embarassed me, drank some then we were on the way. By the time we got to Smith Bridge about half way it was stinking HOT, like I mean like low 90's with 100% humidity. We drank good at Smith Bridge, yes she went into the river and pooped again, Terry gets so mad at me that she does that...I mean really what am I supposed to do, put a cork in it just before we enter all water holes?????
We went up over the highway and had a cold drink of diet coke from Fat Jack and visited with Al for a bit. He was sitting on the ground under a tree and we shared his shady spot for about 10 minutes, ate a snack and were on our way.
We were looking forward to visiting a certain house who likes us and always has a water trough in their back yard. It is about 4 miles from camp and since it was so hot we were looking forward to another drink for the horses. We got to that spot and looked and NOTHING. No water today folks, sorry. An empty backyard. I was starting to get worried about the Tramp since he was sweating buckets and still had a long deep sandy 4 miles to go yet. We went slow and stopped every 15 minutes for him to catch his breath and even walked a little once we got to 4-Mile road. We made it into camp fine and Lady wasn't affected by the distance or heat one bit.
Had a nice night and up early to do it again tomorrow!
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