okay so I am in Campo California and I
am about to hike the Pacific Crest Trail
so I weighed my pack last night and I'm
looking at right now about 30 ish pounds
with water and food
I'm going to do it ah and horse doodoo
we are not on the 80 anymore
so right here at the trailhead is Mexico
behold the land of good talkers boom
already at mile one not going home I'll
out the first time this is so beautiful
crazy how like each turn everything
looks a lot different it's kind of crazy
how much I had the jitters on the way
here I mean even this morning but
especially like leaving Alabama I was
not ready like I didn't you know have
all the stuff in my pack when part came
there to get me because he came down
from New York to Alabama and then we
were supposed to leave the next day but
I had done with taxis yet I hadn't
talked my package you know if everything
fit for sure I mean I figured it did but
he was in the same boat so we had a tax
doin party so he left his car in Phoenix
with his friends and then hopped on a
Greyhound bus and rode all the way to
San Diego where a trail Angel scout and
Frodo picked us up and we stayed with
them last night and then they brought us
to the trailhead this morning and scout
Frodo have been doing this for several
years now and they host hundreds of
hikers at the southern terminus of the
PCT every year just out of the goodness
of their hearts I mean they don't ask
for any money they actually won't accept
it umm they take you know if you do want
to give they suggest you donate to the
PCT a so it's pretty neat what they do
you know a lot of people are like why
don't you just fly why are you gonna do
that and wow I just can't get over the
views here it's crazy I don't know for
me in my brain I needed I needed some
transition like I couldn't be you know
one minute in Airport and the next on
the trail and feel like in the desert
you know so I needed to see the land
transition
I kind of wanted to get a you know right
a Greyhound bus but I didn't want to do
it across the whole country
my first adventurous experience alone
was when I was 14 and I wrote a
Greyhound bus from South Florida to
Alabama to visit my grandparents so it
was kind of appropriate
I just wanted to allow myself some time
to realize I'm actually doing this again
no but it's like um tropical rain or
something you know I think I should
maybe like taste it now I don't know
maybe you should remember what it looks
like and looking up and then if it's
something edible then I mean you don't
want to have a closed entire University
I'm at about mile eight now and I think
like mental spirits are still completely
intact my hip and my knee MLS leg are a
little tinder I think my body's just
like really you're you're doing this
again um so so now we'll see huh next
water source supposedly isn't until mile
fifteen so might push a little bit more
than I had intended today they say that
like a lot of folks do 20 miles first
day but I had no intention of wearing
myself out or kill myself the first day
to do that so anyway 15 is the is the
mark that I'm aiming for know if you can
hear that but if you can well that's the
first round thing just have a rattle
baby no he stopped okay you know I had a
feeling Montgomery this would be a
perfect place that we see a rattlesnake
on the trail and not exploit stuff on a
bus it was disconcerting that you know
we didn't spot it like a few yards away
like we were passing it yeah I mean that
is say huh yeah we're talking about you
all right
lose something we get over eventually
yeah or that I'll get over because
clearly on this the one that's mainly
freaking out is that one up there on the
trail
yes yeah son of a mother hunter is it oh
no it's just a shadow later yeah so it's
like every stick is is naked
every 30 shadow is a snake somebody on a
horsey and we are tearing up at
something we need attacked me so the
lady on a horse is doing the whole trail
- except she said might be skipping this
year is because of the simp Act but
about 25 miles a day so that's something
you certainly don't see on the 18th is
so external and by horses pretty sweet a
lot of folks are talking about the snow
all of us have been warned that what
we're getting ourselves into but I mean
it's still early on you know locals
before I got started kind of you know
we're like it is a concern for sure but
just you know be careful and evaluate
the situation as you get closer and so
when I get to Kennedy Meadows you know
I'll think on it I would prefer to do
one continuous northbound trick but
we'll just see hopefully it'll warm up
and melt it all the way I know that's
not really realistic but but um you know
if you wait too long then you've got
forth and if you go too soon then you
know you might be surfing in an
avalanche so we'll just see as it gets
closer but I mean I'm kind of up for the
challenge
we're like going to freaking forest this
is awesome it's only for a brief moment
here under this bridge taking a little
break and looks like people are pretty
serious about packing it out here and
just leavin dude I'm sitting here in the
shade laid back on my back because I was
like I feel a little nauseous and you
know it's really hot out here so this is
nice shade it was like I feel like I've
drank too much liquid and it's just like
sloshing around and then I just kind of
jiggled and listen I don't know if you
can hear that I really I really do not
have a water bottle that is literally my
stomach but I can certainly say I never
imagined my first sporting experience on
a PCP would be in the desert but oh my
gosh it's kind of more of what I miss in
the desert looking like Erica - is tree
vicious horses on Rupe horses off I just
can't get over how cool this looks
looking right on the edge of all this
and straight up there's a little trail
with an awesome view
just a spoonful of buckets a little pot
can't but water is 0.23 way down this
hill
the desert I hope I can get to water
quickly for the cover complaint in Wendy
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here's your vibe really isn't allowed
for each other probably half I can roll
back to your angle
two classics in there
kind of children
pretty clean
so this Hill is a doozy but uh it feels
really good
strangely to like I don't know exert
myself and this is like the physical
challenge of it you know that that feels
good and I don't know I would say like
mentally I know I can do this
so I feel like this trail you know I've
already got that walked in and then you
know when you have to stop and take a
break that view is just not horrible to
look at and enjoy but uh but it just
feels good to be back out here and free
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