10 Days Until Trek - Dust
Dust was a constant companion for pioneers travelers. I suspect that we'll have the opportunity of smelling, tasting, and feeling dust during Trek. Clean water will be refreshing not only to quench thirst, but also to wash the sweat and dirt off of your face at the close of a long day and to get the dirt out of your mouth. I don't know if we'll "consume a pint of dust," but we'll get a taste of what pioneers experienced.
"Mary Elizabeth was one of the rare [Latter-day Saint]
pioneers to mention the ‘pint of dust’ consumed that so many Oregonians
complained about. On August 1, 1863, she wrote: ‘Among the hills and rocks most
of the day, and dust an inch thick. … Had breakfast of bacon, fried cakes and
coffee, traveled on a good road for miles, then stopped, cooked dinner, wind
blowing a gale of sand all over us. I think we will get the proverbial peck of
dust before we get through.’ She added: ‘I write by fire light. Danes at
prayers, our folks the same while I, poor sinner am baking bread. I don’t much
like our preacher, he strokes his beard too much and speaks too low.’"
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