First Breakfast (in the hammock) January 11, 2025 8:07.

First Breakfast (in the hammock)

Day Three

First Breakfast (in the hammock). Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

Yes, I am taking a page from the Hobbits’ playbook and having a first and second breakfast!

There is frost inside my hammock — I’ve seen this before, but only when it gets quite cold. Sure enough, according to my thermometer it was 16°F last night under the tarp. So probably even colder outside. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

It was jolly cold last night, but my shirt had dried before lights out.

As I suspected, my down jacket was soaked, so I hung it up to dry. It just froze solid.

Despite being 17°F when I was fixing and eating breakfast, it is forecast to get up to 40°F later in the day.

As the sun reached the tops of the trees, the snow in the upper limbs began to melt and rain down. It was going to be another wet weather camp breakdown.

As for my breakfasts, the first was a cup of hot chocolate and a Pop-Tart, and the second was another cup of chocolate, biscuits and gravy. Great stuff to set one up for the day!

Over an hour after I woke up and it’s still chilly out there. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

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