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New Colors

10 more miles hiked today, all of which were unusually rocky but also very flat, so I suppose the difficulty level evened out. The fall colors are getting prettier every day. It's like walking through a watercolor painting. Really, really beautiful. Today's hike was rather uneventful for the most part. We stayed on a ridgetop the entire hike, and didn't see any critters and very few other hikers. We did meet a Southbounder named "Low Step" who actually sat down and talked to us for about 15 minutes. He said we were the first people he'd seen in two days. I think he was starved for company. We hiked the 10 miles fairly efficiently, and made it to the gravel parking lot where we boondocked with plenty of time left to explore. That's where the real highlight of the day came.

Disneyworld

Cabela's is essentially a superstore of an outdoor outfitter. The building was as big as a mall. They had dog kennels and horse corrals in the parking lot for their customers. It's that kind of place. They have everything anyone who wants to set foot outside for longer than an hour needs to survive. Everything. They even have a restaurant and a frozen zoo.

And by frozen, I mean shot dead and stuffed.

Look! A bear!

I probably could've spent days wandering around in there. The huge display of taxidermed animals and the heads on the wall were really impressive. They had everything from raccoons to water buffalo to lions. We had dinner in the restaurant there. I had an elk burger. If you've never had elk, you should. It will be the tastiest, leanest, juiciest steak you ever had. We resisted the urge to start spending money there and made it back to base camp with our dignity intact. It was still lots of fun to go look though.

Trail Dog thought so too.