Our 24th day on the Pacific Crest Trail. We descended Deep Creek, and passed a hot spring fed wading area frequented by locals —- May 12, 2015 Start location: mile 292, at a campsite between a jeep road (3N16) and a large creek (Holcomb Creek) End location: mile 310, just north of a rainbow painted bridge over Deep Creek, lat/lon:
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Our 23rd day on the Pacific Crest Trail. We left our hotel via a ride from trail angel Mountain Mama. We resumed hiking at Van Dusen Canyon road. — May 11th, 2015 Start location: Van Dusen Canyon road, mile 275 End location: mile 292, at a campsite between a jeep road (3N16) and a large creek (Holcomb Creek) We woke
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Our 17th through 20th days on the Pacific Crest Trail. We hiked up Mission Creek’s valley from the Whitewater Preserve, headed towards Big Bear Lake, CA. In doing so, we left the San Gorgonio Wilderness (BLM) and entered the San Bernardino National Forest (USFS). We hiked on to Big Bear, where we stayed for three nights due to weather we weren’t
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Our 16th day on the Pacific Crest Trail. We said goodbye to visiting family, then hiked 10 miles to the Whitewater Preserve, a veritable oasis in the desert. May 4th, 2015. Start location: Morongo Casino End location: Whitewater Preserve, mile ~218 Miles hiked: About 11 We woke around 7:30am, Morongo’s comfy beds keeping us asleep for more than 8 hours
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Our 15th day on the Pacific Crest Trail. We spent the morning and early afternoon descending Mt San Jacinto. In the late afternoon, we were met trailside by family. Start location: Fuller Ridge Trailhead (and car camping), ~Mile 191 End location: Mile 206.8, Snow Canyon Road Miles hiked: About 16 Our day started early, around 6:30am. The morning was loud–
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Our 14th day on the Pacific Crest Trail. We summited Mt San Jacinto and had great views of Palm Springs and Mt San Gregonio. Start location: Mile 182 End location: Mile 191 Miles hiked: about 11 due to the Mt San Jacinto alternate route diverging from the PCT. Our day started late. We were walking by about 8:45am. We immediately
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Our 13th day on the Pacific Crest Trail. We left late from Idyllwild and resumed hiking via the Devil’s Slide Trail in Humber park. This is our second time writing this post; WordPress dropped the first when we tried to upload it. Start location: Idyllwild, CA End location: PCT mile 182, at a campsite just before the start of Mt
Read moreWordPress dropped this post. It had been about 10 paragraphs long and included 6 photos. The WordPress Android app is terrible. We had lots of problems with it on the AT, and the same problems continue this year. The WordPress developers believe that the Android app supports atomic commits, but there are very big bugs in that “atomic” behavior when
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Our 11th and 12th days on the PCT. We hitchhiked to Idyllwild and took a zero day there. Day 11 (April 29) Started at: Mile 135, 2 miles south of Tule Spring Stopped at: Idyllwild, CA (trail mile 152) Miles hiked: 17 Miles hitchhiked: 19 –Started walking early (7 am), before the other two couples we camped with had even
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Our tenth day on the Pacific Crest Trail. Trail magic (burgers!) at trail angel Mike Herrera’s oasis. Rick/Apollo is battling blisters. Start location: Agua Caliente creek at mile 115 End location: mile 135 at a 3-tent site right off the trail Miles hiked: 20 April 28th, 2015 We woke early-ish and were walking by 8am. We had to start our
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