Day 32: Halfway up to Grassy Hollow Visitors Center
4/16/17
PCT mile 370
We finally made it up the mountain! It was a hard push. We began our day with our ties on (it was Easter Sunday after all). We rationed water most of the day as we knew there was a limited supply ahead. Another hiker John (Ghost) let us know there was some snow melt at the turn of for Wrightwood that would work. But once we got there, we discovered he'd meant it was a tire rut in the dirt road that had filled with water. Oh well! That will still work after we filter it.
We still had to go on another 7 miles until the next water. But little did we know that part of the trail, that was usually bypassed by most hikers that went into Wrightwood, went along a steel north face traverse before everything the ski resort. By afternoon it was a snowy slippery mess that was very exhausting and dangerous at times. But it gave us more snow travel miles under our belts.
We get to the visitors center mentally went physically exhausted just planning in filtering weather and hiking another mile before camp. As we sit, huddled by the outhouse sheltered from the roaring wind, our gravity water filter perched on the ledge above, suddenly the water bag full of four liters of water shifts and comes crashing down on us busting open and soaking our already shivering bodies. We burst into laughter!
We are staying here for the night! I'll pay the fine in the morning when the Ranger shows up if we are busted for illegal camping! We are done for the day!
4/16/17
PCT mile 370
We finally made it up the mountain! It was a hard push. We began our day with our ties on (it was Easter Sunday after all). We rationed water most of the day as we knew there was a limited supply ahead. Another hiker John (Ghost) let us know there was some snow melt at the turn of for Wrightwood that would work. But once we got there, we discovered he'd meant it was a tire rut in the dirt road that had filled with water. Oh well! That will still work after we filter it.
We still had to go on another 7 miles until the next water. But little did we know that part of the trail, that was usually bypassed by most hikers that went into Wrightwood, went along a steel north face traverse before everything the ski resort. By afternoon it was a snowy slippery mess that was very exhausting and dangerous at times. But it gave us more snow travel miles under our belts.
We get to the visitors center mentally went physically exhausted just planning in filtering weather and hiking another mile before camp. As we sit, huddled by the outhouse sheltered from the roaring wind, our gravity water filter perched on the ledge above, suddenly the water bag full of four liters of water shifts and comes crashing down on us busting open and soaking our already shivering bodies. We burst into laughter!
We are staying here for the night! I'll pay the fine in the morning when the Ranger shows up if we are busted for illegal camping! We are done for the day!
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