Here's the report: Before we went on the trail, we got lunch at a complete abomination of a restaurant, which was a Burger King modeled after a stupid 50's diner (Fast food
and terrible music,
and a table shaped like a car). We went an absolutely miserable 5 miles to the first shelter we encountered(we got a late start because of the stupid Burger King). The shelter had a little feral cat that we fed a massive amount of tuna.
The next day, we thought that we'd have ample water from the springs further up on the trail, so we only took 1.5 liters of the water at the shelter's spring. As we (my older sister and I)traveled from shelter to shelter waiting for our deathly slow mother and younger sister, we found out that the springs at every shelter were dried up. We were dehydrated and the daytime high was like 96 degrees. It was 4 miles (1.5 hours of walking for us inexperienced hikers) to the next flowing spring. After those 1.5 hours (during which there was much wishing for oranges and snowballs), we found the flowing spring. And there was much rejoicing. Then we waited for an hour for the rest of the family and eventually walked off into the sunset and stuff.
Once we were back at the car, and had waited for the lamer members of the family, we packed everything into the car and went back to the stupid Burger King for dinner. I refused to get out of the car.
When my family was done being publicly dirty in a hideous fast food restaurant, we got back on the road home. My dad hit a big hunk of trash in the road and slit his tire open.
We still made it home by 11 o'clock.
Oh, yeah, and since I left before anyone posted on this thread, I was not warned about the snakes, bears, poison ivy, long drops onto rocks, escaped convicts,
or rabid monkeys. Needless to say, I slipped on a snake (which bit me) onto a bear, which mauled me and flung me into a patch of poison ivy, then rolled through it off a cliff into a den of escaped convicts, and had to fight to the death with a rabid monkey to win my freedom from them. I lost the fight with the monkey so I had to be reincarnated.
