PCT day 16 Mile: 197.2 to 209.6 (12.4 miles) Start: Windy campsite 4800 feet up Mount San Jacinto Finish: Comfy soft bed in Palm Desert Via Tamarack Rd past the I-10 highway overpass, Whitewater, CA We descended the mountain early in the morning following a blustery night of hurricane winds threatening to topple over our […]
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PCT Day 15 Mile: 181.2 (plus 3.2 miles side trail) to 197.2 (19.2 total miles) Start: Just below the summit of Mount San Jacinto Finish: Tentsite nestled in some manzanita at 4800 feet spared by the 2020 Snow Fire At 5am the alarm went off and we sleepily packed up our bags amongst the patches
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PCT Day 14 Mile: 162.7 to 181.2, plus a 3.7 mile detour to the summit of Mount San Jacinto (22.2 miles) Start: Cedar Spring remote campsite Finish: Tenting just below Mount San Jacinto summit Shannon and I woke up at 5:15am, grabbed some additional water to tank up for the next 15 miles and hung
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PCT Day 13 Mile: 151.8 to 162.7 (+1.3 miles side trail to water and camp) (12.2 total miles) Start: Woods paneled hotel room at Silver Pines Inn, Idyllwild, CA Stop: Tenting under huge pine trees at Cedar Springs remote campsite Shannon and I woke up late this morning after recovering from last night’s hiker party
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PCT Day 12 Mile 140.2 to 151.8 (11.6 miles) Start: Nance Canyon tentsite Finish: Paradise Valley Cafe and Silved Pines Inn, Idyllwild, California We woke up late again to all the hikers camped near us having already packed up and left the nice flat soft sands of Nance Canyon. I think we just need a
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PCT Day 11 Mile 119.6 to 140.2 (20.6 miles) Start: Lost Valley Spring tentsite & overlook Finish: Nance Canyon tentsite on a sandy dry creek bottom We woke up at 7am and of course we were the last ones out of camp and everyone was already gone to hike in the cool morning shadows. About
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