These Mountain Mahogany’s are starting to bud and the yellow Bigelow‘s Tick seed line the trail as the sun pokes its way up the mountains in front.
We’re hiking along the river today. The sound is beautiful and music the sights are amazing.
As the river of vears away from us, the sound begins to fade, and I noticed these tall, Purple Dicks sprouting up along the trail.
This morning we hit a major mile stone. PCT Trail mile 300 but for us with 200 completed in the Flip we have hiked 500 miles!
The river and trail quickly round them selves back together, and we are again parallel the beauty and powerful sound.
Today has been one of the most beautiful days we have had on trail following the river. We stopped at this tributary, feeding the main river to refill our water at mile three.
High up on the canyon side is this bridge spanning the Canyon.
We continued down trail along the main river, seen in the video at the end of this post, and are now refilling our water the second time at this tributary stream.
Sitting right alongside the river is the deep creek Hot Springs we took a break I have lunch, sat in a couple of the natural hot springs, hot tubs, and then continue on our hike
After paralleling the river for 11 miles we come to our first crossing, which is this arched bridge.
3 miles from the bridge we crossed the spillway of this dam. Not sure of the purpose of the dam since it is empty during one of the heaviest rain years we can remember.
Back to deep Creek where we actually did our first crossing of it not too bad just upper thigh deep in the cold water was refreshing.
We arrived at Highway 174 and called the Joshua in a local bar and deli to come pick us up for a ride. They offer camping, hot shower, bathroom, and food. There are about 20 other hikers here, many we have crossed paths with before.
Today’s miles 15.8 Total trail miles 515.0
(PCT mile mark 314.3 due to Flip completion of 200.7
