A blog of my hiking and mountaineering. I have hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) and am working on climbing all of the Colorado 14ers.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Day 29- night hike
The day began with me rising much earlier than everyone else camped near me at mile 503. I walked through the pine trees, downhill for the most part for 7 miles. Then I got to the edge of the dessert. From here I went up, over, around and between dozens of little foothills and finally the trail turned and I walked a couple miles straight into the dessert and then to hikertown. Hikertown was a guy, bob's, property which was kind of set up like a western town. It was a great set up for the hikers. I relaxed here for a while and watched many people come and go for a few hours. At this point I had hiked 15 miles and was looking on getting a few more miles into the dessert in the evening. The problem was so many people I have seen or hiked with kept coming in soni kept getting side tracked. By the time I finally left it was nearly nine. I figured I could get in a few miles. So I walked. We walked along the California aqueduct first then the Los Angeles one. It was a nice night. About 65 with a slight breeze. I decided to stop around 1145 due to tiredness and wanting to be able to hike well tomorrow. The walked totalled about ten miles. It was a very peaceful ten mile night hike than I enjoyed. I could see some big city lights at my back. LA? Either way it was a nice change from continual day walking.
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