We’ve reached Burney Falls and shortly head into Lassen Volcanic National Park which is a ‘milestone’ as we’ve visited and stayed in the park once before. The days getting here have been smokey and hot with a heat wave but this morning the air is  clean, cool and fresh with blue skies. 

Stats update with previous figures in brackets and new categories in italics:





• Walked 536 miles (225)
• Seen 34 deer (9)
• Forded 2 rivers (2)
• Seen 4 snakes 
• Passed 751 (540) other hikers of which:
• 17 had dogs (12)
• 8 were on horses (8)
• 1 was barefoot (1)
• 3 were wearing kilts (2)
• 15 were playing music from speakers (6)
• 88 were listening to headphones (42)
• 31 were heading southbound (14)
• 1 was traveling with a goat train
• 1 was wearing a neck tie