4 days until Pie Town, NM and around 98 miles of distance to cover. Looking at my food bag looked like I'd be cutting it close. I had to do big miles now that I was out of the slow Gila section, around 25 miles per day to make it there on Tuesday before the pie shops closed for the day. Hilariously I fell after the very last crossing of the Gila after not falling once the 3 days I was along the river.

Following Snow Lake it was a fairly dry section, a big change after not having to worry about finding water walking along a river all day. Turkey Spring wasn't flowing next to the road like the water report said it would so had to push all the way to a cow trough near Cotter park in the middle of a vegetation-free pasture 5 miles further. Here I hiker named SPAM, who told stories about hating putt-putt golf with Arnold Palmer at a bar, and meeting Joan River's in a men's bathroom.