| ||||
The weather had unexpectedly turned for the worse during the night. Bigfoot was forced to set up his tarp in the middle of the night to stay dry in his bivy. I awoke to dense fog and continuing rain,but fortunately stayed dry inside my tent. We decided to wait and see if it would [...] It was time to hit the trail again. I was sure that my shin splints had sufficiently healed. After an early wake up,the unpopular task of cleaning up the gear explosion all over the garage had to be completed. At 9 a.m. we were finally finished and loaded our packs and the bounce boxes [...] To give my shin splints more time to heal,we decided to stay another day in Wrightwood. Bernie and Keith extended their hospitality for another night which we were very grateful for. I continued working on my trail journal,sorting photos and making some more phone calls. Additionally we discussed the details of the upcoming [...] After breakfast Mary gave us a ride back to Wrightwood. On the way we stopped at Stater Bros. in Phelan where we could resupply for the next leg of the trail cheaper and easier than in Wrightwood. With bags full of food,we squeezed ourselves back into the car. A few minutes later,Mary dropped [...] We had been really hoping for the other 80% after the weather report predicted a 20% chance of snow showers for today. Whitsunday,however,did indeed decide to greet us with snowflakes rather than tongues of flames. When it started snowing on us at 4 a.m.,I could hear Bigfoot hurrying to set up his [...] This was the first stay at a hotel so far where we did not take a zero day,but returned to the trail on the next day instead. I had set my alarm clock for an early wake up before 6 a.m. to have enough time for shaving,a shower,a relaxed breakfast and packing [...] Bigfoot surprised us with a very early start at 5:45 a.m. today. He could not wait to roll into McDonald’s at Interstate 15 which was still 14 miles away. Stanimal and I took it a little bit slower and were ready to hit the trail by 8:30 a.m. We,too,were looking forward to getting [...] Since we wanted to make it to Interstate 15 within 2 days,another long day was necessary today. Refreshed after the zero day at the hot springs,we left early and exited Deep Creek Canyon at Mojave Dam less than 2 hours later. After an easy creek crossing and a short break afterwards,we reached [...] I slept in this morning and took things very slow since we had planned to spend at least half a day at the hot springs. So there was no hurry,and I really enjoyed that after a long hard day. After having some cereals with milk for breakfast,a big fat squirrel got into my [...] Our goal for today was to reach Deep Creek Hot Springs before nightfall which required a 22 mile day and a net drop of 3,000 feet of elevation. The trail roughly followed Holcomb Creek for the first half of the day. After about an hour we stopped,so Bigfoot and Stanimal could dry out their [...] | ||||
| Copyright ©2012 Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) - All Rights Reserved | ||||