Day 15

More reasonable start today. On trail by 6.

The mission of the day: get out of the San Jacinto mountains. Including yesterday’s summit, we descended 8000 ft over 20 miles, then crossed the desert floor for about 4 miles.

Those who have hiked the PCT know the legend of the Large Rusted Pipe. And today was the day! Just past mile 200, there is a large rusted pipe. You can see it for miles as you descend into the valley. Then it hits you. It is great. Simply great.

We heard through the grapevine that we should check the weather. We did and found a wind advisory for 35-45mph wind with 80 mph gusts. Grandma and grandpa were supposed to meet us at i10 to bring resupply so we phoned and asked if we could crash during the bad weather.

Whopper (Sam) and 5Spice were about 7 miles ahead and had already made a hotel reservation, which BeFree joined in on. Meanwhile, Spicy, Tux, Eelco and I went to grandma and grandpa’s.

We all showered up, started a load of laundry and went to Mario’s for dinner.

Popped over to Ralph’s to get some food and headed home,

Made it to 209, slept in Palm Desert.Baca selengkapnya