Halfway Done With the Desert

This'll be a short piece, nothing super exciting happened over the past 105 miles since Big Bear. I'm currently in Wrightwood, mile 369.5 and heading off in the morning. 

The past week since leaving big bear went by really quickly. I hiked and camped with a guy named Jake aka "Mista Blista" the entire time. We stopped at a "clothing optional" natural hot spring along the way and hung out there for about 4 hours. It was ok, a lot of kids were there doing various substances and just being a bit trashy overall. About 2 miles later I almost stepped on another rattle snake and fell over because I tried to stop quickly while going downhill. I ended up falling down right in front of the snake and lost my 2 liter water bag that was strapped to the back of my pack, oh well. Nothing too exciting happened in this section, we went into Cajon Pass and stopped by the McDonald's in town.

We did 13.5 miles that day in under 4 hours! The next day we did 23 miles to bring us into Wrightwood. It was mostly uphill and it started hailing on us when we got to around 8000 feet. I hitched a ride alone with a nice old man and rode in the back of his beat up Toyota pick up. I ended up leaving my trekking poles in the back of his car; realizing this about 30 minutes later, I bought a new pair from the local shop and as I'm walking out of the store there's the guy holding my poles. It's amazing how nice people are. We took a zero here in Wrightwood and spent the day watching crappy tv and eating food. Tomorrow we are summiting Mt. Baden Powell; if you don't know Baden Powell was the creator of Boy Scouts. Considering I'm an Eagle Scout, I'm pretty excited for it even though it's supposed to be a bitch of a climb. We are shooting for 26 miles tomorrow, but we'll see if that actually happens. Anyways, that's about all I have to report, thanks for reading!