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Title: PCT Hikers
Post by: Sandman on June 18, 2006, 01:28:52 PM

Yesterday, my wife and I drove the Jawbone Canyon and Piute Mountain roads. Roughly seventy miles of terrain that shifts from desert to pine forest and back to high desert. I posted a few pics on my site.

On the way back through Onyx towards Walker Pass, we saw a couple of hitchhikers with backpacks. I immediately stopped. My wife asks, "What are you doing?"

I then had to explain... the Pacific Crest Trail (http://www.pcta.org/about_trail/overview.asp) runs right through the area. Anyone wearing a pack between Walker Pass and Onyx is probably on the walk. I've given hikers rides from Walker Pass down to Onyx and a friend of my neighbor made the walk a couple of years ago. He kept an online journal and it was just fascinating.

Anyway, we picked up the two hikers, a man and a woman that have been walking since April, some 650 miles between Walker Pass and the start in Mexico. They're planning on finishing up in Canada by October.

Man... I wish I could afford that much time off from work. Maybe when I retire.

Title: PCT Hikers
Post by: Sandman on July 21, 2006, 05:10:44 PM

I just noticed that they left a nice entry in their trail journal (http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=144326). :aok

Title: PCT Hikers
Post by: Makarov9 on July 21, 2006, 05:26:43 PM

Wow, you're not the mean, heartless SOB I thought you were.

:)

Nice going!

Title: PCT Hikers
Post by: midnight Target on July 21, 2006, 06:52:06 PM

They sound like moonbats... :)

you're lucky they didn't meditate you into nirvana.