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PCT Section I, 24th to 27th August 2006

Feet

When I was younger, in my late teens or early twenties, my ear became clogged with wax so I went to see Dr. Tyler.  He filled a syringe with warm water and began shooting it into my ear, displacing the wax.  To catch the water, he had me hold a stainless steel bowl below my ear.  After 5 minutes of squirting we both heard two clanks and upon inspection, found two rocks the size of sea salt in the bowl.  Now fast forward 10 years...

This is one of the shoes I hiked in, purchased from the North Face Outlet store in Berkeley for around $30.  The shoe worked great, but as you can see, it has a very open mesh, which let a lot of dust in.

	My feet were fine except for this blister which formed under callused skin.  I checked my feet a few times each day but didn't notice anything since the blister was forming under the callous.  It wasn't until I got to Glen Aulin that my feet really began to bother me.

Wonder why I was having problems?  Check out the 6 or 7 rock salt size pebbles that were in my blister.  I have only myself to blame as I didn't clean and rotate my socks like I usually do.  At camp 1 I also slept with my damp/dirty sock on, underneath my sleep socks so my quilt stayed clean.

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