Hiker Heaven

May 31 - Day 30

Wingit and I made it to Agua Dulce last night. Hiker heaven is everything it was made out to be! There is free laundry, internet, camping, and more. Here's a quick day by day recap of the last couple of days:

May 30 -Last 21 miles to Agua Dulce. Made 10 miles by 10 AM to achieve a "10x10". Thanks to Monty for hooking us up with use of the swimming pool at Robin's RV park (fully lived up to it's reputation as the "dumpiest place on the PCT"). Fried chicken for dinner didn't end up being as good as it sounded.

May 29 - Woke up at Sulfur Springs with significant frost on both sides of the tarp tent. It was so cold I was unable to get the tarp in it's stuff sack. Hiked with Sparky most of the day. Decided to push for 26+ miles to get within reach of Agua Dulce.

May 28 - My 30th birthday! Descended from the snow early in the morning. Wingit brought a birthday cupcake for me. Walked a re-rout to stear clear of an endangered frog. Ran into Sparky towards the end of the day and camped with him that night. Covered 22 miles on the day.

May 27 - Hiked up and over Mt Baden-Powell. Some fellow hikers had a birthday party on the top of the Mt. Lot's of snow, trail was hard to follow at times. On the far side of the Mt, no more than a dozen hikers had pushed through the snow before us... often all of them lost the trail all together for long periods, but the snow had melted enough by the time we got there that I was able to follow the trail well enough. Camped at Little Jimmy Campground - mostly cold and snowed over with only a handful of bare sites to pitch tents. Cold night!

May 26 - Long hard climb up above Wrightwood. Pretty much uphill all day to Guffy Campground. First campfire of the trail!

May 25 - Hitched back to the trail from where we left off. Easy stretch of trail of mild ups and downs. Went by Lake Silverwood. Hit McDonalds at around 4:30 to fuel up for another couple of miles. Boy Scout Troop 849 carried water for us to a dry point up the trail.