Tag: pct17
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Hippie Daycare – Day 39: Hilltop to Casa de Luna
Cowboy camping went well, although I didn’t find packing up in the morning to be much faster than usual. I got an early start while Mountain and Tallboy continued to sleep. It was already warm and muggy at 6am and only continued to get warmer. Flies were everywhere, flying into my face and buzzing in…
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Farther than Anticipated – Day 34: Sulphur Springs Campground to Roadside Burn Area
Pct miles: 406.6 to 427 Miles: 20.4 I got a late start out of camp because we got in late and I was tired. And I also hadn’t taken the time to get water the night before so I went to do that, but didn’t bring my scoop cup, so that took an immense amount…
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Back to Trail, Sort Of – Day 31: Wrightwood to Grassy Hollow Visitor Center
I woke up this morning thinking I was sleeping in my tent on a cliff – only to realize I was just off the floor, on a bed. I laid in bed a while before getting my things together. As I did that, I realized I’d lost my credit card at some point the day…
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Town Got Weird – Day 30: Guffy Campground to Wrightwood
Miles: 5 Woke up to a really gorgeous sunrise and watched it from inside my tent. Started packing up but wasn’t in too big of a hurry because I knew it was a short walk to town. I decided to make myself hot oatmeal for breakfast (normally I would never break out my stove in…
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The Hot Springs Were Everything I Wanted Them To Be – Day 26: Splinters Cabin to Deep Creek Dam Offshoot
Miles: 15.3 Woke up this morning around 530 but stayed cuddled in my tent. It was a little cold out, and also on easy terrain days without the hot heat Rawhide and I haven’t found it necessary to get up super early. Eventually I started getting my pack together and went to the bathroom –…
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Friends + Family of Hikers: Some Questions to Ask When They Call Home
I’ve heard of a few instances where hikers call home or friends and the conversation has been less than encouraging. I think part of the reason that happens is because people imagine that we’re out here having the time of our lives and maybe even need to be brought back down to earth, or think…
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Up Up Up, Burgers and Overwhelm – Day 13: Desert Climb to Wooded Overlook
PCT mile: 144 to 159.7 Miles: 15 (almost 16) Snakes: 2 Rattlesnakes: 1! My first! Kind of Today I let myself not wake up to an alarm and started waking up to the campers around me around 515. It felt good to let myself sleep. I got walking with Karma and Rawhide and they quickly…
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Day 8: Valley Overlook to Roadside Campground
Snakes: 2 Rattlesnakes: 0 Tears: 0 PCT mile 85 to 101 We let ourselves sleep in this morning. Karma and I both had alarms go off this morning at 5am and decided to ignore them. We ended up getting started around 645 and the morning flew by pretty quickly. We had to get some water…
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Day 5: Boulder Field to Canyon Campsite
Miles: 7.5 Snakes: 1 Rattlesnakes: 0 Tears: 0 Well, we finally took the short day we intended to take. 7.5 pretty easy miles, which puts us about 14 miles outside of Scissors Crossing aka our method to get to Julian. I slept super well last night, waking up around 6. I stayed in my tent…
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So Much for a Shorter Day -Day 4: Mt Laguna to Boulder Fields (mile 57)
Miles today: 14.5 Rattlesnakes: 0 Snakes: 1 Tears: 0 Woke up around 530 and went and took a warm shower at the Laguna campground and then spent a big chunk of time in the women’s bathroom because 1) it was cold outside and my hair was wet and 2) because there was an electrical outlet…
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