Day Twenty Three

I wake up this morning bright and early ready for a great day. I make some coffee for the group pack up my gear and get ready to head out. Most of the others are still rubbing there eyes. I realize that they are not as serious as I am about doing the hike. I head out with one other and agree to meet up with the others later. Guy and I hike to a spring in order to re-up with water. On the way we run into some guys in the army who were on a retreat. They hook us up with some chocolate pudding. Yum. We meet up with the others right around lunch and we all sit down for some tuna fish and tehina. After luch we sit down and try to map out our course. Four of us have a different idea about where to go, no worries, Ill go own my own, David another hiker my age decides to come with me. Its David and David. He is also adventurous and we decide to leave the trail for a few days and navigate using out topographical map. As we are hiking out of Ein Hava into Nachal Hava the whether takes a turn. To my surprise it looks as though it will rain. We look for safe ground against flash floods, collect wood and set up camp. Rain it does, all night long. Fortunatly I have a good tent and we stay dry.