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Day Ten – Meeting the Mayor of Idyllwild
My bladder wakes me in the night and unfamiliar voices make me stir hours later but don’t bother me enough to even open the tent door as they seem to fade into the distance. When I finally get off my … Continue reading
Day Six – A Day Off
Caleb is struggling with what we thought the trail would be versus the reality we are facing. Trail angels are heading north, as apparently is our water supply, leaving the county to lock access behind them. The first two weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Food, Media, People, Places, Travel
Tagged bnb, hiker trash, laundry, moms pie house, PCT, transportation, zero-day
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Day Five – Trekking Poles Save Lives
Yesterday was 18.4 miles, by my watch. Caleb, Rachel, and Gert go back half a mile or so to the Sunrise Highway junction, where it’s a quarter mile to a water source. The other two had planned to leave at … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Camping, Food, Friends, Hiking, People, Travel
Tagged beautiful, cactus, desert, hills, Julian, PCT, snake, Southern California, trail angel, trail family, trekking poles, views
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Day Four – There’s Honey in These Hills
Gert and Rachel leave camp at 620 and we’ll be about 15 minutes behind, as usual. I spent the morning drying wet clothes in the hand dryer while the four of us shared the three stalls in the open bathroom. … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, bugs, Cleveland National Forest, PCT, permit tags, snake, Southern California, thru-hiker, trail family
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Day Three – Not Too Perilous
Today will have us leaving camp at 8am, about five minutes behind our trail family, with my body at a 6 out of 10. I see a California kingsnake but the non-venomous ones are usually in a hurry to escape … Continue reading
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