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PCT Day 17

 

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PCT Day 17, 29 May 2022 (Sunday)

”Threasy”


Start Location:

Wilderness Camp Near Deep Creek


Destination:  Vu

Silverwood State C.G.

PCT Miles Day 16:

22.8

Cum PCT Miles:

328.8

Non-PCT Miles Day 16:

1.9


Cum All Miles:

348.0


PCT Miles Remaining:

2,323.8



Elevation Gain Day 16:

2,777

Cum Elevation Gain:

54,457


Just like Pat Riley, former Lakers coach, copyrighted the word “Threepeat“ I am copyrighting the word “Threasy.”  It is when you have three easy days in a row.  It’s not that the last three days were easy hiking in absolute terms, it’s that they were easy by PCT standards.  Today was the hardest of the last three days because it was the longest, and it felt the warmest, and there was a lot of moderate bushwhacking.  The sights today were more varied than most of the other days: creeks, canyons, dams, power plants, highways, industrial fences, and lakes.

I saw rattlesnake #5 today., a western diamondback. It “sliddered” two feet from my toes when I was hiking on another steep hillside.  It part slid and part slithered quickly past me down the steep, sandy, slippery hill.  It didn’t even rattle, and I had no shot— no pun intended—to get a picture.  And I think I get double bonus points for making up two words in one day.


I camped at the Silverwood State Campground tonight, it was quite a popular place with the recreational crowd.


BTW, A non-hiking way you can use the word “threasy:” you’re at the office on a late Thursday afternoon before a three-day weekend, a colleague walks by and says “good night have a nice weekend”.  And you say “good night have a nice threasy.”



Deep Creek in the morning

Hairy Yerba Santa, looks a lot like Poodle-dog Bush


Deep Creek Hot Springs

The colorful, arched Deep Creek bridge, one of several bridges that spans Deep Creek

Mojave River Forks Dam, holding back…sand?

The view today, the highest peak to the left is Mount San Antonio (a.k.a. Mount Baldy)

Pretty interesting site along the PCT

This is a pretty funky section of the PCT

Silverwood Lake, like an object in a mirror, it’s much larger than it appears

Horned Lizard

One never knows where a flower grows

 
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