Month: October 2010

Trail Twitter

  • Sitting next to a ORV trail, watching the sun set through power transformers, listening to traffic. #
  • While thinking about the 40 some mile road walk I start tomorrow. #
  • And the other road walk ahead of that, #
  • Where Billy Goat was shot at, 2 packs stolen, and a hiker got bit by a pit bull. #
  • Thinking I don’t want to be here. #
  • Maybe I’ll feel better in the morning. #
  • Last night I answered back to some coyotes and then realized it was domestic dogs. #
  • Then a round of gun fire went off. #
  • This morning I see my crack house neighbor. parked on the next hill. #
  • There were helicopters flying over all night long. #
  • You know what’s great about the SoCal section of the PCT? #
  • It leads somewhere better. #
  • It’s not the same when it dead ends into an old iron fence. #
  • My attitude hasn’t improved much since last night. #
  • Laying on a hill. I don’t want to get up. #
  • But I’m out of water, so, I should. #
  • On my way home. Goodbye PCT, see you next year. #

Hey from Hiker Heaven (Agua Dulce mile454)

I finally got up at 2:30 in the afternoon and started to hike.    I still felt bad but thought it best to move out of the rain and to a place with water.

For a  while now I have bouts of stomach pain and vomiting, then it goes away, and I feel fine.

I have the trailer at Hiker Heaven all to myself.   I’ve had a hot shower, changed into cotton sweats, cooked myself some eggs, and watched a movie.   Good times.

Trail Twitter

  • Worst night ever. #
  • I think someone was having a wilderness rave. #
  • At 6am it was still going on #
  • I got sharp grass seed in my clothes and all my gear. #
  • I lost my glasses, broke my spare pair and lost 2 tent stakes. #
  • But now, all is calm, I'm away from the killer grass seed, the gnats, and the booming noise. #
  • Laying down, enjoying the morning sun, and drinking tea. #

Trail Twitter

  • There was a "No Loitering" sign on the PCT today #
  • But there is no sign on this old dead tree I've been curled under for the past two hours. #
  • 8 days in a row without seeing another hiker. . #
  • 546.5 full signal. #
  • I guess I better get hiking before they send the sheriff up here to have me arrested for loitering. #
  • WA535(faucet near Cottonwood Creek) flowing well but water is a little green. #
  • WA541.5(Tylerhorse Canyon) is flowing but is shallow and heavily polluted with cow poop. #
  • WA545(Gamble spring Canyon) is dry. #
  • Man, that Aqua duct water is nasty. #
  • 7 more miles to Hiker Town. Maybe I can make it without drinking any more water. #
  • Even though I treated it with Aqua Mira and added flavoring, the taste makes me gag. #
  • Mile 525 two bars. #
  • Worst water of the trip. #
  • One an a half gallons cached at 524.7 #
  • Sitting on the Aqua duct eating hamburger and fries.! #
  • A water worker gave them to me. #