pct day 23 - 05/28/13

wow! i thought it was windy over by san jacinto! nope, not by a long shot. it was so windy in the valley where hikertown is that i thought the trailer i slept in that was propped up on cinder blocks was definitely going to tip over. it made for an interesting night.

this was a challenging day of hiking for a couple reasons. firstly, it was a 17 mile flat, jeep trail walk thru the desert. ya, a little monotonous. tad bit. secondly, it was way windy. so windy, in fact, that i got rained on from a storm at least 2 miles away because the wind carried the rain all the way over to me. it was strange to have clear blue skies overhead but still get rained on. i was rewarded, however, with this . . .


so windy that on at least ten occasions during my hike i was either lifted and pushed up the mountain or stopped dead in my tracks while i had to wait for the gusts to die down. i was laughing quite a bit.

i ended up deciding to hike all the way to tehachapi/mojave simply because it would have been a difficult night in the wind. i doubt that my tent would have stayed standing. here is a little funny right before i got to the road . . .


thanx, cuz i wasn't sure if those were wind turbines or not. i was struggling with that one all day long . . . lol.

some more trail magic happened in that a guy was parked at the trailhead and offered me a ride to town within seconds of getting off the trail. amazing.

40 miles from hikertown to tehachapi. 558 miles total.

- tribhu (tree-boo)