stardate supplemental: Bryce and a day without

This day started with the usual way I wake up in a tent: thinking that it cannot be morning already. I just lay down, tossed and turned for 20 minutes. How can the sun be up already? As soon as I get in my left-zip sleeping bag I want to be on my right side. Oy. Yet, when I camped in death valley i popped thru the tent door busting with energy. Not so today. The difference between hiking and slogging through a river shin-to-waist deep 50% of time is making itself known to my thighs