The plan was to do a longer day, of about 19 miles, but we had a hard time hitching on the freeway ramp. We moved to
the main street, near the McDonald's (and I got a vanilla shake) and it didn't work much better, until a pickup
stopped, and the driver said he'd be right back and take us up to Walker Pass.
It turns out he is the guy taking down the trash from Yogi's cook out up at the campground, and he also just dropped
some other hikers at the motel. Anyway, he got us back up just before noon. A late start on a hot and hard day.
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| Yogi's Trail Magic at Walker Pass |
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| View back towards the pass |
We hung around the campground for a while, got cheese toasts for lunch, and drank some cool soda, but finally we
headed out at 14:00, aiming at the spring about 13 miles down the trail.
The hike started with a long long climb. We stopped for some munching at the first campsite, 4.5 miles in. But it
just kept on climbing afterwards. We did manage to make our second short stop at the top of the climb, so since then
it was all downhill for the rest of the day.
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| Nearly at the top of the climb |
We got to the spring just before 19:00, and headed down the steep side trail to the water. Down by the trough there
was a weekend hiker setting up camp, and another guy we just met at the cook out, taking a sort of a hiker bath,
with a bandana. We just filled out our water, treated the for the first time with Aqua Mira (because Idan is worried
that in this section filtering isn't enough), and headed back a short way towards the trail, where we saw a nice
spot for our tents.
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| Near the Joshua Tree spring |
A quick dinner, and we are going to sleep late now, at 20:30. Tomorrow a long and hard day.
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