Rainbow, TC, Durango and I hiked out of Idyllwild early Sunday morning, just as the sun was beginning to peek over the mountains. Clean, rested, and spoiled from two nights in a proper bed, we climbed the steep side trail back to the PCT and then up San Jacinto.
At the summit, we looked down to the barren desert below, to the straight line of the interstate we’d be hiking towards tomorrow. Durango (his government name) told us tales of his time in New Zealand on the TA: the time he got attacked by fuzzy possums while sleeping, …
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