- Date: 2023-06-13
- Pct day: 39
- Start: Mile 541
- End: Mile 558
- Distance: 17 miles
- Ascent: feet
- Descent: feet
- Start name:
- End name: Tehachapi
- Wake up:
- Start hiking:
- At camp:
- In bed:
- Where I slept: bed
- Shower: yes
Key moments
- oooft I’m coming back to this day nearly 50 days later and having a hard time remembering exact details
- I left kind of early, still feeling sluggish after the accidental aqueduct adventure, and Nubs had already left well before me
- Again super impressed at Nubs pulling through after feeling so terrible and being sick
- I hiked for a bit with a nice dude named James, had a nice chat to him as we managed to scrounge a bit of water from a small pool upstream
- stopped a hiker water cache, which was the most impressive one I’ve seen so far - deck chairs, a couple of tables, a shade umbrella, a pantry cupboard, a cooler (nothing there but reports were a day earlier there was fresh oranges and Soda), and fresh spring water that you don’t need to filter
- In short, quite incredible, there is an access road just next to it and it must require a lot of work to keep going.
- They had a donation jar, and I put money in there - thank you kind folks for putting such a wonderful spot together
- I remember the road to the highway where you hitch into Tehachapi being a long one - a long slow descent over hills in the heat and so many wind turbines. It was a beautiful sight to see, the soft light from the clouds over the hills of the wind turbines
- But also it felt like it just kept going on and on…my feet were sore and I just wanted to be in town where my friends the cowboys had kindly organised a hotel room and were chilling out at that moment in a hot tub with beers
- I made it to the road and there was a really cool PCT log book in a metal box, which had post cards with nice quotes about hiking, like: “And I remember why I’m here…to lose my mind and find my soul” - a quote from Crumbs, a PCT hiker in 2018
Plan from here
- take a zero in Tahachapi
Animals sighted
Gear thoughts
Physical condition
Thoughts and Observations
Some of the bad things
Quotes of the day
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