PCT Day 61 June 30, 2021 Mile: 706.9 to 730.8 (23.9 miles) Start: South Fork Kern River campsite snuggled in some rocks and pines Finish: Death Canyon campsite (aka Death by Mosquitoes Campsite) Early this morning, 4 very noisy section hikers (aka people who hike part of the Pacific Crest Trail) decided for us that […]
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PCT Day 60 June 29, 2021 Mile: 702.6 to 706.9 (4.3 miles) Start: Grumpy Bear’s Retreat in Kennedy Meadows Finish: South Fork Kern River Bridge After a long night of listening to some large creature snuffling near our tent in the dark and trying to paw its way into a large plastic barrel nearby, we
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PCT Day 59 June 28 2021 Mile: 693.6 to 702.6 Start: The Scorpion King campsite aka Manter Creek tent site Finish: Kennedy Meadows South, Grumpy Bear’s Retreat After last night’s ordeal with the scorpion invasion (aka real life Whack-a-Mole but with pissed off scorpions instead of robotic plastic rodents) and all of the drama that
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PCT Day 58 Mile: 668.7 to 693.5 June 27 2021 Start: Spanish Needle Creek. Finish: Mantet Creek tentsite, aka the scorpion kingdom. Shannon and I left camp late in the morning as it was so nice and shady and quiet that we were able to enjoy the place in peace. True to his word, Lickety
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PCT Day 54 to 57 June 23 to 26, 2021 Mile: 651.5 to 668.7 Start: The town of Kernville via Walker Pass Finish: Spanish Needle Creek Shannon and I both needed a mental break from the desert and so we relaxed in the tiny riverside town of Kernville for a few days where the temperatures
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PCT Day 53 June 22 2021 Mile: 630.9 to 652.2 Start: Bird Springs Pass Finish: Kernville Rivernook Campground via hitchhiking from Walker Pass I woke up at 5am with one mission today: get the f*ck out of the desert. Shannon stayed in the tent to sleep a bit longer but I knew personally that I
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PCT Day 52 June 21 2021 Mile: 608.7 to 630.9 Start: Landers Meadow campground Finish: Bird Springs Pass in the whipping wind Shannon and I slept in under the tall whispering pines in the shaded Landers Meadow campground, the cool air lulling us back to sleep for once instead of the normally hot morning sun
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PCT Day 51 June 20 2021 Mile: 592.9 to 608.7 Start: Beyoncé campsite Finish: Landers Meadow spring campsite In my sleep I shut off my 5am alarm several times and we slept in until about 7:30am. The gorgeous dappled shade and early morning breeze lulled us to sleep and made it difficult to wake up.
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PCT Day 50 June 19 2021 Mile: 572.9 to 592.9 Start: sheltered juniper grove campsite outside Tehachapi Finish: spacious tree campsite and meadow, aka, the Beyoncé campsite At 5:15am, we were up and tearing down our tent so we could hike to the next spring before the temperature became dangerously hot. We tore out of
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PCT Day 47-49 June 16 to June 18 2021 Mile: 566.4 to 572.9 Start: Fairfield Inn, Tehachapi, CA Finish: Protected juniper grove tentsite Over the next couple of days there was supposed to be an enormous heatwave coming through and it was going to be pretty dangerous to hike in the desert with not much
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PCT Day 46 June 15 2021 Mile: 555.5 to 566.4 Start: Mountain lion skeleton campsite Finish: Fairfield Inn in the town of Tehachapi Our alarms went off after 4.5 hours of sleep and we bolted up. We knew it was going to be super hot again today and needed to get moving ASAP. We were
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PCT Day 45 June 14 2021 Mile: 541.5 to 555.5 Start: Tyler Horse Canyon tentsite Finish: Random tentsite with coyotes and windmills and a mountain lion skeleton in the trees Neither of us really remember what happened during the day today as we were so exhausted from night hiking until about 3am that we barely
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PCT Day 44 June 13 2021 Mile: 517.6 to 541.5 Start: Weevill Market near Hiker Town & the Los Angeles Aqueduct Finish: Tyler Horse Canyon tentsite Shannon and I spent all day relaxing at Weevill Market (named so because it’s like a little village on this empty highway versus being named after the nasty insects)
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PCT Day 43 June 12 2021 Mile: 498.2 to 517.6 Start: Sawmill campground Finish: Grassy side yard at Weevill Market on highway 158 We woke up as the sun rose and headed out into the woods before it got too hot. We were low on water but the cistern at the campground was somewhere in
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