May 26, Day 37: 566.5-583.3
Miles Hiked: 16.8
Gratitude of the Day: I’m thankful that the day ended. It was such a long hot day.
Today it’s back to trail from the Best Western in Tehachapi. We slept in this morning and didn’t wake up until around 9am, then it was a hiker free for all to pack up and figure out a ride back to trail. Half of us took a trail angel and half of us took the local taxi company. By 10:15 we had been dropped off at the interstate and the PCT. Then the plan for everyone it seemed that had been dropped off, not just our group was the spring 17 miles away. So not only was it an uphill and hot since we started late in the morning, but I had 4 liters of water plus 6 days of food to get me the 134 miles into Kennedy Meadows. At the hotel there was a scale and we all weighed our packs, mine weighed in at 45 lbs with everything, a heavy pack to start the push out of the desert. Also, I’ve lost between 12 pounds since starting the trail.
The first 7 miles today was uphill, hot and exposed. I had to be sure not to drink all my water during that section because I had 10 more miles to the water source. Lunch was a chance to eat some food and lighten the load. Then I pushed all the way to the spring with minimal breaks because today was pretty much underwhelming. I didn’t take many photos, supposedly around mile 580 you can see the Sierra’s in the distance but all I could see is that we’re about to walk thru another wind farm.
Tonight there is probably 20 hikers camped in the vicinity of the spring.
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