Ending point: fuller ridge trailhead
Daily miles: 15.3 miles, 11.1 pct miles
Total: 190.5
Huge day today. We climbed Mt San Jacinto, 10834 ft. It's not officially on the PCT, but it's a highly recommended detour. The route was mostly covered in snow, which wasn't so bad on the way up but on the way down we needed to be able to find the PCT again, but we had no idea where the trail to get us there was. We were with a group of like 7, so it was kinda fun route finding. We used a gps on my phone that I thought I'd get to make life easier in the Sierra, and it worked perfectly. Found the trail and made it back so we could set up camp at the Fuller Ridge trailhead.
For the record, Fuller Ridge is my least favorite piece of trail engineering ever. There are so many unnecessary switchbacks... You switchback down below a boulder just to switchback back up again like ten feet later. And the switchbacks themselves are like five feet long. I was so annoyed by the end of the day.
Then we joined a ton of thru hikers around the fire and cooked dinner and talked about fun stuff. Sidetrack has been carrying a plastic toy of BeBop, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, since Campo. It fell off his pack and I carried it for a while expecting to see him. Never saw him, but we left it on the trail in a place we thought he'd find it - only to see him today and have him tell us he skipped the section we left it on. Hopefully they are reunited soon.
Okay I need to save my battery.
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