Third and Fourth Nights

We went to a new site. We had a hike-in and I didn't know what to expect. We got out there and a lady riding a horse followed by another horse and four dogs came over to see what we were doing. We had to carry out all of our personal gear and the nets (which weigh close to 50 lbs.!) Luckily we were only about a half mile away from our vehicles. Jenna and I had to set up by ourselves. It went mostly ok, but really frustrating at times. I was the one that knew what to do and I had only done it once before. Eventually we had both nets up and they were only slightly saggy. We had no bats all night. At 9:30 it started to sprinkle but soon stopped. By 10:30 we had a steady drizzle that continued into the night. It stopped for an hour at 12 but by then it was COLD. I was wearing every layer possible under my rain jacket and I even opened my umbrella to stay dry. We gave up reading early on, too cold, too wet. We tried to radio Jen, the nearest leader and found that our radio was dead. Lucky we didn't have any bats. Jen and Jake came over a little after midnight to check our temperature. 8.4 C. Definitely below 10. We took down out nets and went home early. The down side is that the night didn't count because it wasn't a full 5 hours. It rained all night and the next day until about 7pm. Chris said no netting tonight, too cold. Which means we are now behind by two nights. We sat in our cars and tents all day. We planned to go out to a larger town for the evening but the telemetry project too a long time. We ended up going to the campground restaurant and then later to a bar two miles down the road. That was a good waste of time. When we got back we had a campfire for an hour or two before bed.

This morning we got up a bit early because we went to bed a bit early. We woke up and started to bleach all the nets before we headed out to town about one for shopping and internet. Hopefully tonight will be warmer and we will have more luck.