another town are you sure you hiking boi

I stayed in Warner Springs last night after a solid 19 mile day. Crossed the 100 mile mark so that was fun. It’s cool if you can’t tell from that video, some doofus was holding his finger over the camera when he was filming. Yesterday was a delight.

I started up on a point overlooking the valley we had just come through. Third Gate water cache was cool, but i forgot to take a picture even though i was there while i ate two bagels. There were stacks and stacks of Costco water jugs, about as much as would be on a shelf at any given time at Costco. From there it was 10 to the next water source (which had a problem with mice dying in it so i waited a few more miles until the next one.)

I really appreciate on the PCT how often you can see the trail ahead and also see how much progress you’ve made. It’s cool rounding a corner and seeing the next half hour of your future drawn into the mountainsides before you.

While i was resting at dead mouse water a hiker i met back at Mount Laguna rolled by and gave me a beer. He was hanging out with his girlfriend and giving out healing cans of mana.

A few miles up i hit Warner Springs Meadows and everything was perfect. I threw on the new Decemberists and it was pretty great. There’s something about meadows though, they make my soul feel big. I was on top of the world rolling through those fields only not literally rolling because there was poo everywhere.

Warner Springs has a golf restaurant that i’m sitting in now. I dunno, i’m short of words today. My body and my brain are idling, and my spirit is still reeling from that meadow surprise yesterday.

surprisingly enough it smells fine here

meadow day still lives fresh in the mind

an entire day spent with trail in sight, cutting serpentine paths into my past and future, conjured so easily still

pct with big idyllic nature energy confirmed. another past gadget, but future gadget from these words, has words for it on the ridgeline outside of wrightwood -every mile of this trail is a postcard-

past gadget and present gadget have this in common: we both spent way to much money on bloody marys that we drank while typing these words

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