I reached the Route 18 trailhead early in the morning and stuck my thumb out. The third car to come by picked me up. My driver was Laurie, accompanied by her dogs, Sequoia and Cheyenne. She told me she’d picked me up for two reasons. One, that I had smiled and waved so animatedly and two, because she hated to see a single woman, alone, hitchhiking.
Blue Moon’s personal guidelines for on-trail hitchhiking
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