We had two great days in the Wrightwood cabin, but then it was time to start climbing. Our first day out of Wrightwood we monstered up the 9000' peak of Baden Powel.
There was still a bit of snow up there, but luckily we found a friend to help cut steps into the ice with his axe.
We made it to the top of Baden Powel to find this awesome dude who set up a traveling art exhibition- which he carried up using all homemade gear.
Way to go, man! He's bringing art to the masses (or at least the adventurous ones.)
This tree, could like go on forever...Man
Coming down from the mountain we found ourselves getting lost in this extremely thick fog.
Another trail closure! There have been so many already. I am not road walking 5 miles in this fog on the tight, winding, mountain roads!
We are alive, we made it to mile 400, Whoo!!! Although, I might be getting over these 100 mile marker stones....
Ok, ok, I must say that when I started I was totally against cowboy camping. I like my tent and my space, where I feel safe and secure. However, I have come around to it and realized that it's really not so bad- it's actually pretty fun. It saves a lot of time with tent set-up and breakdown. Not for every night, but fun once in a while for sure.
I can never see too many of these.
Mmm breakfast
We made it to Acton KOA campground, time for a family feast... CHINESE!!!
Hiker Heaven here we come!
Made it to Hiker Heaven, next stop LA.
Monkey Feet's new gloves, ready for those cold Seirra nights.
A car to a train to a bus. 2 1/2 hours later and we made to to Santa Monica.
Beach!!
BEACH... I haven't seen this much water for a month...
Cucumber Jalapeño Margaritas
Real dinner, real cocktails, I love it. I feel so at home.
YES PLEASE !!!
And with that our trail vacation draws to an end, back to Hiker Heaven... Life is hard.
Hiker Heaven is packed with hikers.
First day back on the trail, I came across this huge gopher snake that was chillin' in the middle of the trail. I waited a few minutes to let the guy behind me know to watch out for the snake in the trail. This dude walks up, and is like, "oh cool, do you mind if I pick it up?" Obviously, I said hell yeah! He goes ahead and picks it up and starts playing with it, it was not playing back. This is a big, mean snake. It obviously wanted to bite the shit out of him. Well done. snake handler.
Katana
Sunset hiking to avoid the heat.
Next day we hiked into Casa De Luna, aka Hippy Daycare. They serve taco salad every night for dinner and cinnamon pancakes every morning for breakfast. Not bad at all!
Casa de Luna taco time
Come take a journey with me into the forest of Casa de Luna
Down the rabbit hole
What an awesome day, we went in and didn't come out till breakfast the next day.
Monkey Feet Incorporated, breakfast meeting.
PCT class of 2016
There I am
Monkey Feet trying to catch a hitch out of Casa de Luna...
short answer... fail
Mile 500 at sunset
Monkey feet and I decided to extend our day and hike into the night, the night shot I took below is from when we got to camp at midnight guided by the light of the moon, it was a beautiful night.
Farm land walking in to hiker town
Stopped in Hiker Town for dinner, then the Governor and I push on for another night hike through the flat desert with a nearly full moon. Another awesome night.
LA aqueducts
Midnight shot of town from camp
desert cows!!
Turbine sunset
Wind turbine field
Amazing trail magic, apples and oranges... So fresh
more wind turbines, and gorgeous landscape
We made it!!!
TEHACHAPI!! We made it.. our first night we had the opportunity to sleep in a teepee. We didn't pass it up. We will take a few days here, there are about a hundred people at Kennedy Meadows waiting for snow to melt. We are not in a rush.
How Monkey Feet drinks beer