So it turns out that if your options are a) hike with a full pack for 4 miles while wearing flip flops or b) put your hiking boots back on over some really impressive blisters, option a is totally reasonable.

(Miles hiked in boots: 4. Miles hiked in flip flops: 13. Only had to haul the full pack for the trip out though, thanks to some fortunate circumstances.)

We did hike into Kings Canyon National Park, which is where this perhaps overly-sharpened phone camera photo is from. Maybe I will find the energy to dig out the good photos tomorrow, but there’s not a ton.

I actually hiked on part of the John Muir Trail this weekend. And didn’t die. pic.twitter.com/DhRSTFCsB9

— sylk (@sylk) July 5, 2016

So anyway, you’re all still stuck with me. (Most common wildlife observed on the trail, besides the most obnoxious mosquitoes ever? Lizards.)