May 27, 2012.
Day: 3 Daily Miles: 46.5 Total Miles: 144 Hours Hiking: 18.5 6:25am-12:55am
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May 27, at 1:10am, this is for day 3
{On the audio log I mistakenly said 28th}. I did a bunch of night
hiking. My total for the day is 46.5 miles I believe. Lets see, the
GPS cords I'll get to in a second. The day, um, not so bad, I felt a
little laggy just because it was a little hotter and I took my time.
I started off at about 6:20am and got down to Barrel Springs, a
little disappointed there, low flow and not much water. I got over to
Warner Springs and got my stuff together which took about 40 minutes.
That was good, pretty quick. I kept going up the canyon and it kept
getting hotter and hotter and hotter. I finally had to do the bigger
climb out of the Agua Caliente Creek canyon and met up with two guys,
well hiked with them for about 20 minutes to the next water source
then proceeded to talk for about 30 minutes extra. So I got delayed
but, ya know I was helping them out with their gear and tips because
they were hiking from Mexico to the California/Oregon border. They
had so much crap it was unbelievable. So I did what I could to help
them out, but that put me behind for the rest of the day, which was
just hiking uphill, a lot of it actually in the sun. I kind of felt
roasted a little bit toward the end of the day. Then probably about
30 miles in my left knee started not feeling quite right. When I
twist it a little bit, the torsion sets it off. We'll see how it is
tomorrow. I kinda was hiking through it, it's not the worst thing
ever, but it's not that good. It felt like it took forever to get to
Nance Canyon, where in 2009 I got pretty good water. But this year
it's not that great, it had an orange tint and wasn't flowing super
fast. It was about 10pm and I took a break. I took half a caffeine
pill and Ibuprofen because I knew the Anza water cache was just up
the hill, three miles.
So I sped up and did that and had an awesome
dinner. I got all the water I could drink and cooked my heaviest
dinner which was tortellini with spaghetti sauce and at the cache
there was a box of canned peaches, so I ate a whole can of peaches
and devoured my tortellini with bacon bits. I then had my ounce of
olive oil and it was awesome because I am so full and didn't want to
put my pack on to leave, because I had to hike a mile out to get a
good camping spot, where I'm at now. I have a good view of Anza and
the lights in the distance and I'm surrounded by big boulders. It's
nice and flat and not in a cold canyon and it's warm. When I put my
pack on the hip belt it wouldn't fit where it was set to when walking
because I was so full, which was really funny to me. I kept going for
another mile and ended up at my spot at 1:10am. Tomorrow I'm hoping
to hike pretty much all of San Jacinto. I'll probably stop somewhere
on Fuller Ridge or not Fuller Ridge but the big 20 mile downhill to
the water spigot. If I wanted to go all the way to I-10, it would be
like a 60 mile day, and I don't want to do that. It's probably more
like 70, nah 60, no 70 actually, I'm at 144 and the highway is at
208. That's all for now, the Milky Way is telling me to go to sleep,
which I'm going to do, so goodnight.
Day 3
May 27, at 1:10am, this is for day 3
{On the audio log I mistakenly said 28th}. I did a bunch of night
hiking. My total for the day is 46.5 miles I believe. Lets see, the
GPS cords I'll get to in a second. The day, um, not so bad, I felt a
little laggy just because it was a little hotter and I took my time.
I started off at about 6:20am and got down to Barrel Springs, a
little disappointed there, low flow and not much water. I got over to
Warner Springs and got my stuff together which took about 40 minutes.
That was good, pretty quick. I kept going up the canyon and it kept
getting hotter and hotter and hotter. I finally had to do the bigger
climb out of the Agua Caliente Creek canyon and met up with two guys,
well hiked with them for about 20 minutes to the next water source
then proceeded to talk for about 30 minutes extra. So I got delayed
but, ya know I was helping them out with their gear and tips because
they were hiking from Mexico to the California/Oregon border. They
had so much crap it was unbelievable. So I did what I could to help
them out, but that put me behind for the rest of the day, which was
just hiking uphill, a lot of it actually in the sun. I kind of felt
roasted a little bit toward the end of the day. Then probably about
30 miles in my left knee started not feeling quite right. When I
twist it a little bit, the torsion sets it off. We'll see how it is
tomorrow. I kinda was hiking through it, it's not the worst thing
ever, but it's not that good. It felt like it took forever to get to
Nance Canyon, where in 2009 I got pretty good water. But this year
it's not that great, it had an orange tint and wasn't flowing super
fast. It was about 10pm and I took a break. I took half a caffeine
pill and Ibuprofen because I knew the Anza water cache was just up
the hill, three miles.So I sped up and did that and had an awesome
dinner. I got all the water I could drink and cooked my heaviest
dinner which was tortellini with spaghetti sauce and at the cache
there was a box of canned peaches, so I ate a whole can of peaches
and devoured my tortellini with bacon bits. I then had my ounce of
olive oil and it was awesome because I am so full and didn't want to
put my pack on to leave, because I had to hike a mile out to get a
good camping spot, where I'm at now. I have a good view of Anza and
the lights in the distance and I'm surrounded by big boulders. It's
nice and flat and not in a cold canyon and it's warm. When I put my
pack on the hip belt it wouldn't fit where it was set to when walking
because I was so full, which was really funny to me. I kept going for
another mile and ended up at my spot at 1:10am. Tomorrow I'm hoping
to hike pretty much all of San Jacinto. I'll probably stop somewhere
on Fuller Ridge or not Fuller Ridge but the big 20 mile downhill to
the water spigot. If I wanted to go all the way to I-10, it would be
like a 60 mile day, and I don't want to do that. It's probably more
like 70, nah 60, no 70 actually, I'm at 144 and the highway is at
208. That's all for now, the Milky Way is telling me to go to sleep,
which I'm going to do, so goodnight. |
| Day 2 Panorama - just before dropping down and off the Laguna Mountains. |
