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I boil water for tonight's add-water-to-bag meal, and then wind down and enjoy the food coma; it rains for a while later on!

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3790-supper.jpg I catch a final glimpse of the ball of fire before it drops down behind the distant mountainsThumbnailsKelso Peak hike elevation profile from my powerline road campsite, Kelso Mountains, Mojave National Preserve (Day 2)I catch a final glimpse of the ball of fire before it drops down behind the distant mountainsThumbnailsKelso Peak hike elevation profile from my powerline road campsite, Kelso Mountains, Mojave National Preserve (Day 2)I catch a final glimpse of the ball of fire before it drops down behind the distant mountainsThumbnailsKelso Peak hike elevation profile from my powerline road campsite, Kelso Mountains, Mojave National Preserve (Day 2)I catch a final glimpse of the ball of fire before it drops down behind the distant mountainsThumbnailsKelso Peak hike elevation profile from my powerline road campsite, Kelso Mountains, Mojave National Preserve (Day 2)I catch a final glimpse of the ball of fire before it drops down behind the distant mountainsThumbnailsKelso Peak hike elevation profile from my powerline road campsite, Kelso Mountains, Mojave National Preserve (Day 2)

Tonight's meal is Mountain House Jamaican Jerk Chicken with rice, a real winner (Backpacker's Pantry makes a rather bla version of this same instant meal).

It's a rather windy evening, a bit noisy in the tent with the walls flapping back and forth. Just as I crawl into my sleeping bag (it's cool enough to do that), a bit before 23h, I hear the pitter-patter of raindrops on the tent, and then the sound of real rain.

Luckily, it only lasts an hour and nothing gets wet. It's fun to peer outside occasionally and see dark, clear skies with many twinkling stars just beyond the clouds which are raining on me. Tomorrow, I'll learn that the people 10 miles down the road at Kelso didn't know about tonight's rain here.