Day, 28 push to the cabin

I headed out of camp at about 730 the sun just poking over the hills. Last night was extremely windy, one of our more windy nights, and It was chilly 

Just outside of our camp is this old mining operation

I’ll be walking through the desert tortoise habitat today. Not sure if we will see any…. Didn’t.

I’ve been nursing a blister since scissors crossing way back around day 12. It just continues to spread little by little. Today it’s a little more painful than normal so I’m going try to do a little something to it and see if I can’t get a little relief as I hike. 

Again, we just keep going up and up and up 

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We came from the top of the mountains on the other side of the valley. We dropped down into the valley and then came back up the mountain on the other side.

One of the difficult things about hiking in this terrain is the very sandy soil, especially for the blister, as you see in this picture it’s like walking on the beach every step is just a little bit more difficult 

I came across some really good rock formations again.

Another indicator that we have climbed up a pretty good distance is when we have radio towers on the peak adjacent to you 

It has been a rough morning with the cold the wind, the sand and the elevation, but God showed Himself just when I needed it. He brought us to the wind, protected side of the mountain and provided these beautiful wildflowers along the trail. That along with the knowledge that I’m very close to the water cache and lunch gives me a boost.

An amazing cache! power banks to charge phones, lots of water, medical supplies if needed.

After a quick lunch and water resupply, we’re headed back up hill. We will be passing towards the side of the peak on that little saddle. The third picture is looking back across the valley to where we came from. You can see the radio towers that we were by a few hours ago.

This is the saddle, we went right past it and continued up to the left of it

I think the rock in the center of this picture looks kind of like an owl looking down on the trail

At the center of the screen, you will see the road where the water cache is where we had lunch. There are trees on either side of the road and directly below those trees. The trail comes up from that road that is the location of the cache.

The farthest mountain range you can see in the distance is where we started yesterday morning

Almost at the top woo hoo! 4 mile a uphill!

Great view of the Sierra’s. We can see Olancha peak once again Whitney can also be made out a little to the left of it shaped kind of like an anvil with the right side of it straight up and down and then the top slipping to the left.

Beautiful cliff

We once again change climate zones. We’re back into a typical forest.

Afternoon trail video push it on to a wet camp

Shadow Walkers and a tree showing how I feel after 19 miles 

We decided to push on another half mile to a cabin that is open to public use what a great decision! It sits along a stream and there is a potbelly stove that we fired up and had a very comfortable evening. Jeff and Ellen have definitely become part of our hiker family and are joining us in the warmth of the cabin. The cabin was .3 miles off trail, which increased our miles for today, but is not included in total trail miles.

Today’s miles 19.7. Total trail miles 344.3.  PCT mile mark 643.8  due to Flip of 299.5