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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