>>1700092>so now we’re about 10 hours hike in, it’s getting dark, on a super exposed bluff, and he can barely walk >decide to camp here >set up tent, eat MRE’s, try to sleep>wind in whipping tent around like crazy, almost impossible to sleep>wake up and decide what to do >he decides to abandon tent, sleeping bag, all of his gear except a bottle of water because his feet are destroyed >I leave behind all the food we won’t need in a bag by a trail marker for someone else >we spend the next 16ish hours walking super slow back to our car >ranger asks us what’s going on when he’s limping up “Yeah I just got these boots and they fucking suck!”
“Well did you break ‘em in?”
TLDR break in your fucking boots, picrel was his setup except with and Alice pack