[pct-l] Early Hikers

[Bill Burge]

It's been wild. 

We made it through Friday night in Lake Morena campground. 

Some of us stayed in Boulder Oaks campground last night. It was cold, but not dramatic. Everything frozen in the morning. 

Today, we wanted to hike a ways and camp around mile 38-39. Nope!  Everything covered in snow or slush. 

We pushed on, me and Brrrito thinking maybe Burnt Rancheria campground, but the trail is covered in snow, sleet, mud, or a mixture of any two or all three. It cut our pace a lot. 

We weren't very near the campground when the sun went down and decided to push to Mt Laguna and hope for a cabin/room. We cut through the campground and road walked the remainder of the way where someone that we met earlier and have been playing tag with had a cabin and was expecting us!  Awesome!

So we did 16.4 miles today and 5 or 6 miles of it in bad trail conditions. That's a lot for us; we're older. Tonight, I feel even older. 

SomeGuy 
 Bill Burge
Typoed on my iPhone...


On Apr 13, 2012, at 8:58 PM, "Monty Tam" <montypct at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 4 thru’s and 5 trail crew here for the night getting out of that storm.
> 
> Monty
> 
> From: Ground Pounder 
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 4:29 PM
> To: AsABat ; bighummel at aol.com ; Bryan Rindal ; DARLENE RINDAL ; Dave Chappman ; dsaufley ; Ed Faubert ; hiker97 at aol.com ; thunder_heart_rain at yahoo.com ; Laurel Buchanan Morin ; Margaret Hansen ; Margean Blake ; Michael Blake ; Peter 'OC' Dascalos ; PCT LIST ; reinholdmetzger at cox.net ; Rob Langsdorf ; Ned Tibbets ; Rosemarie Davis ; Scott Herriott ; tom aterno ; Warner Springs Monty 
> Subject: Early Hikers
> 
> “How’s Your Trail”?        I know it’s wet, Praying that All are safe. Rain in buckets and a lot of snow, glad I put off hiking this year. Hope to be on the trail next year, depending on retirement. I hope there won’t have to be any rescues because of this storm. Remember “Be Prepared”  Ground Pounder Bill  “Semper Fi”  
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