35mi

- Woke up feeling balloon headed and kind of crappy, guess the cold is on to stage two.

- Met a biker named Ben on the great divide bike route who did the CDT in 2015 from England. We chatted about the West Highland Way that I did last summer and his home. He mentioned that locals near Helena screwed with CDT trail signs near town to mess with hikers his year.

- Ran into hiker Quicksilver on the road walk to town.

- Also ran into Mac and Oppa along road. They ended up switching into town but just barely, because Mac has a hat with a logo on it that says let's make America gay again, and the driver didn't think that was very funny.

- Quicksilver and I walked the last 10 miles on paved road, chatting occasionally from opposite sides of the road trying to hitch into town whenever a car passed by.

- A man pulled over not to offer a ride, but water, which was much appreciated seeing how I only had .5 liters to last those 10mi.

- My Feet felt like someone took a hammer to the balls of my feet over and over for the whole day.

- Ordered a pizza over the phone while hiking to be picked up about a mile from town.