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Day 11 (Tape)
Ok, it’s friday morning now. (pete cackles) I think uh (laugh) as far as I can remember, who knows? (laugh) But ah, we just met another trail hiker named Walkin Jim. And he’s a super friendly guy. Had some good stories about the earlier part of the trip. And I didn’t get on tape cause…
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Day 11 (Pete)
Day 11 was hard. Night time 11 is going to be windy. We got up with just a peek of light, packed up quick and headed out. After about a mile of descent we decided assuredly that we were going in the wrong direction. Lo’ and behold, our camp was named Strawberry Junction as it…
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Day 11
First light, up an at em! Off we go down the wrong trail. After a couple of miles we figured it out and climbed back up to the beginning of our 25-mile, waterless descent to San Gorgonio. Mind-numbing is about the best word for it. In the morning we meet Walkin’ Jim Stolz, who does…
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Day 10 (Pete)
It seems hard to believe it has only been ten days since I was waking up at home. It seems hard to believe it has only been ten days since I was in a city. It seems like half a lifetime. It was the most beautiful day by far today. Dyl’s leg was in good…
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Day 10 (Tape)
We’re back on the trail! I guess this would be thursday morning. And the leg seems to be doing just fine. As long as I take care of it I think I’m gonna be able to go all day today. So ah, today could easily be the ah, the best day so far on the…
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Day 10
A day that has permanently fixed the San Jacinto mountains in my heart, a personal treasure that I’ll return to one day. The leg performs well, I treat it as tenderly as I can. Pete accomodates my pace as we climb over peak after peak, looking out over desert on one side and green valleys…
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Day 9 (Pete)
Today was a nice relaxing day for me. There is a great deal of irony to the break. Dyl strained, pulled, sprained something in one of his thighs. It seemed that he was taking much too much time to catch up. I waited a long time, eventually backtracking only to find him hobbling along. He…
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Day 9 (Tape)
Its wednesday, still pretty early, and we’re taking an early lunch because on the way up this hill (we’re climbing up the San Jacinto mountains now, things are starting to get really pretty) on the way up this hill I started noticing a little bit of ah, pain in my outer right leg. Which got…
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Day 9
Climbing into the San Jacintos, I pull a muscle in my leg. Our pace slows way down, which makes us appreciate the mountains we are ascending even more. We stop early at a spring surrounded by truly majestic Cedars. I stretch and massage the leg.
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Day 8 (Pete)
I drank two point five liters of water at Tule this morning. Try that sometime. We saw a big ‘ol rattlesnake stretched across the trail right after breakfast. It’s head was about an inch and a half across and it was six to seven feet long. Fortunately, it was early morning and snake was cold…