May 1, 2022 0 PCT miles Idyllwild, California I am oddly comfortable when I wake up. I stretch out and remember that I am in a bed in a hotel room instead of on my crinkly potato chip sleeping pad in my tent in the woods. 6:00 comes and goes, then 7. It’s close to …
April 30, 2022 Campsite at mile 170.9 to Saddle Junction, then Devil’s Slide Trail to Idyllwild 8.5 PCT miles +2.5 miles on Devil’s Slide Trail 179.4 total PCT miles Today it’s light when we wake up. We didn’t set an early alarm because we decided we aren’t going to hike San Jacinto today—we’re going to …
April 28, 2022 Tule Spring to campsite at mile 155.9 19 miles My alarm rings at 4:00. I snooze it, wake up again, and turn it off. Next thing I know, Andy is waking me up. “Passport? Do you realize it’s 4:30?” I was in the middle of a very uninteresting dream, something about trying …
Sarahmarie Specht-Bird 