After a good nights sleep I get up early to get some miles in before it gets too hot. Based on the heat I was planning to try and find some shade and wait out the heat and continue hiking that night. As it turns out it was overcast and it remained overcast the entire day and even had a trace of rain during the day. The temperature was very mild. What a blessing. At mile 624 I come to a point where the trail crosses a road (about 8 in the morning I think) and there was a young man and his wife with a jeep. Right next to the young man (Doug) is a lot of water. I look at the water and look at Doug. Look at the water and look at Doug. I finally say “Is that your water?”. He laughs and says that the water is for the hikers. He tells me he was hired by two hikers (Coyote and Happy Feet) to haul some water up for them to this point. Rather than just bringing water for them, he brought up water for everyone. And he brought Pepsi. And he brought grapes, carrots, beer, hotdogs, tarps he set up for shade and chairs that hikers could sit on in the shade under the tarp. Just another good news story on the trail. As I talked to him I found out he has just lost his job and he and his wife were living out of their jeep!! All of that going on in his life and yet he is taking care of hikers. A little too early for beer and hotdogs but I had a pepsi, ate some grapes, downed and replaced 2 liters of water, gave them a nice tip and headed on down the trail. When I get to mile 630 there is another water cache with plenty of water. It is starting to rain and so I set up tent to wait out the rain. The rain stops soon enough but I decide to just stay at the water source for the night. The next day I hope to get in 20 miles and it starts with a 1500 foot ascent. So no water for 43 miles, turned into water at 617, 624, and 630 and I avoided the heat and actually got cooled by a little bit of rain. I say a few extra prayers of thanks this night.