May the 5th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 14 Total Miles: 186 Start Location: Campsite 0197 End Location: Ziggy and the Bear’s House (mile marker 211) End Location GPS: 33.93781, -116.69841 We decended for another 8 or 9 miles down endless switchbacks until we finally made it to the desert floor again. It wasn’t hot because we […]
May 4th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 14 Total Miles: 172 Start Location: Campsit Mile 183 End Location: Campsite Mile 197 End Location GPS: 33.87235, -116.71139 Hard day climbing and descending Fuller Ridge of the Mt San Jacinto area. We encountered a bit of patchy snow on our traverse downward but it wasn’t bad. Pretty uneventful day
May 3rd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 6 miles Total Miles: 158 Start Location: Humbar Park Devils Slide Trail End Location: Campsite Mile 0183 End Location GPS: 33.77980, -116.69555 We took a full morning in town going to breakfast and picking up a few food items for the next stretch. In the guide book Yogi says the
May 2nd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 15 Total Miles: 152 Start Location: Tule Creek End Location: Highway 74 End Location GPS: 33.56592, -116.57630 Good day hiking as we ascended continually all day. We reached highway 74 around 2 PM and caught a ride to Idyllwild. It’s a funky small little mountain town and we are staying
May 1st, 2016 Miles Hiked: 10 Total Miles: 137 Start Location: Mikes Place End Location: Tule Creek End Location GPS: 33.45771, -116.60242 It’s raining steady right now. Thunder rolls through the sky like bowling balls down a lane hitting strikes every time. We slept in a little and got a later start than usual. We
April 30th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 18 Total Miles: 127 Start Location: Warner Springs End Location: Mikes Place End Location GPS: 33.38129, -116.59066 It rained early in the morning and we woke up at the community center with a wet tent. We were the first ones up and the first ones out on the trail. It
April 29th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 16 Total Miles: 109 Start Location: Campsite mile 0093 End Location: Warner Springs Community Center End Location GPS: 33.27487, -116.64527 Pleasant day after another night of horrid wind, which blew my tent stake out of the ground in the middle of the night. We decended out of the San Filipe
April 28th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 16 Total Miles: 93 Start Location: Scizzors Crossing End Location: Campsite 0093 End Location GPS: 33.28094, -116.54920 The wind was fierce again as we climbed slowly into the San Filipe Hills. The wind is definitely getting old out here. It must be an opposite desert around these parts because all
April 27th, 2016 Zero Day We decided it was best to spend another day in Julian to recover before starting again. Not hiking any miles is a called a “zero day” in hiker lingo. There is also another wind advisory today into tomorrow, with gusts up to 50 mph again on the desert mountain slopes
April 26th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 18 Total Miles: 77 Start Location: Sunrise Trail Outhouse End Location: Scizzors Crossing at mile 77, then Hitch to the town of Julian We woke up inside a cold outhouse. The wind howled all night long as it battered the landscape. We were so glad to be inside an enclosed