Saturday, April 1, 2023

Day 16 Great Views

 Day, 16


Last nights campsite was probably one of the better ones we have had on the trail so far beautiful sunrise looking out over the town below hitting the trail at 8:30 


We started with a short up hill to a Mesa with an incredible vista at the end of the video off in the distance is bouquet reservoir also in this picture 




New kind of a pipe gate device to keep motor vehicles off the trail 



Came through a portion of trail, which is green on both sides, kind of a clover and walking through essentially a tunnel made by the Oaks. Super pretty. 



Our first water filter, location of the day 



Another view of bouquet reservoir



Couple of mile signs although with the flip, they don’t have as much significance for us. You have to subtract 300 miles




Another day of down one mountain range, right back up another. The trail we came down cuts mid slope of the mountain on the other side of this valley 



Same bouquet reservoir but this picture is on the opposite shore 180° from the first one this morning



Lunch at the 8 mile mark next to this beautiful Creek. Had a good meal and a good rest.






We came across many nice looking streams crossing the trail







The second half of today’s hike was up and down through these valleys, winding all the way around down into a valley and then climbing back up.



Just as we got off trail, there was a bin of Trail magic left by a Trailblazer angel




Found a place to pitch our tents behind an unmanned seasonal forest service station


Today’s miles 15.6 total trail miles 178.9 .  Total PCT miles 478.4 due to Flip of 299.5










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