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
April 25th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 17.5 Total Miles: 59 Start Location: Burnt Rancheria Campground End Location: Outhouse near Sunrise Trail End Location GPS: 32.97753, -116.52418 The word of the day was WIND. All day long. Non stop. There was a severe weather warning for the area for high winds exceeding 35 MPH with 50 MPH
April 24th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 11.5 Total Miles: 41.5 Starting Location: Yellow Rose Spring End Location: Burnt Rancheria Camp Ground End Location GPS: 32.85939, -116.41783 Views continue to be impressive. Carolyn is going through the pains of getting her trail legs, so we stopped short of target. Picked up our resupply box at the general
April 23rd, 2016 Miles Hiked: 14.6 Total Miles: 30 Start Location: Hauser Creek End Location: Yellow Rose Spring End Location GPS: 32.75310, -116.45175 Good second day overall. Initial impressions are quite good. The trail is easy to follow and well graded, and the scenery is truly miraculous. It’s more like a desert forest, with trees