HIKE DIARY
Backpacking & thru-hiking
is not always blissful
PCT Day 132, Mikes’s Place to Highway 74 (Warner Springs) 17 miles
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. – Margaret Shepherd No beings – animal or otherwise – came round last night. I
PCT Day 131, ridge above Anza to Mike’s Place, 19 miles
There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even possibly, your own. – Meryl Streep I wake before dawn in
PCT Day 130, Cedar Spring to ridge above Anza, 18 miles
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher How strange it is
PCT Day 129, Saddle Junction via Devil’s Slide to Cedar Spring, 20 miles
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of
PCT Day 128, zero, Idyllwild
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. – Maureen Dowd I’m amazed at how exhausted
PCT Day 127, San Jacinto River to Saddle Junction (Idyllwild via Devil’s Slide) 10 miles
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible. – Lupita Nyong’o I’m pleased we found a site to cowgirl camp at the bend
PCT Day 126, water faucet to North Fork San Jacinto River, 20 miles
The road to success is always under construction. Lily Tomlin It was a night of dueling owls and a morning of dueling doves. A falling
PCT Day 125, Tamarack Road to water faucet, 4 miles
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. – Marsha Norman It’s a sleeping in kind of day, the walk coming
PCT Day 124, zero, Palm Springs
What I learned crashing in Palm Springs for a ‘zero’ on Halloween and Pride weekend: desert weather is better than the upper great lakes …in
PCT Day 123, Whitewater River to Tamarack Road (Palm Springs), 11 miles
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim I know I repeat myself, but it’s
PCT Day 122, ridge above Mission Creek to Whitewater River, 18 miles
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to
PCT Day 121, Arrastre Trail Camp to ridge above Mission Creek, 18 miles
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. – Nancy Willard Because it was so cold down in the creek canyon, I shared Ted’s tent, a
