Day 25

Mile 418.4 to LA Camping

PCT Miles: 25.9 (41.4km)

Total Miles: 444.3 (710.9km)

Last night I camped in a kind of sketchy place, close to some power lines in a construction site. Before 6am today I had already left “camp” and started hiking.

For the first 3/4 of the day, the pattern from yesterday repeated: going up and going down, managing water consumption, taking regular pauses for snacks. The days have been warm but bearable 🐻 the water sources frequent enough. Not much to tell until I was about 4 miles from camp. I was feeling good, all my blisters are healed, the massage and the zero surely helped my body to rest and recover.

I was already planning to have a break for a snack, drink water and rest a bit before the last two hiking hours of the day when I saw a sign 🪧 for a hiker’s party happening today with free food and drinks!

That was exactly it: a big table with all kinds of snacks plus sandwiches and burritos. Also cold beer, soda and gatorade! I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but everything for free.

I spend 45 minutes eating apple, m&ms, trail mix, nuts, all types of cookies, celery, carrots, two cliff bars, doritos, raisins and drinking an ice cold orange gatorade!

Everything was good but as it usually happens with me in parties, I soon got bored and decided to continue hiking. I thanked the trail angels and kept going. Even with the party pause, it was still around 5pm after I hiked the last 4 miles that I had planned for today. That’s a bit too early to stop hiking so I kept pushing for 2 more hours and ended up at a proper camping place. They have showers, toilets and even have towels for the PCT hikers! So an unexpected and unplanned shower happened!

I was about to write that the score now is 4 showers vs 3 pizzas, but someone here at the camping site just offered me more than half of a vegetarian pizza they couldn’t handle. So I guess the score now is tied in 4 showers and 4 pizzas 😊!