2013-05-11 - Day 3 Mount Laguna to Sunrise Trailhead

5/11/2013
Miles: 13

9:30 AM
Mount Laguna Campground

We had a good dinner of spam and eggs last night. I added two flour tortillas to mine and they were delicious. After Dan listened to hockey while I read. He turned. In about 9:00 and I made it to 10:00. I was a bit cool during the night but not enough to get into my se and bag. We will be lower most of the time going forward so it is not an issue.

Woke up about 7:50. Dan was already up. He decided to skip the 5 miles between here and the picnic area so he walked out of here at 9:00. I have my bike gear on and will meet him 5 miles down at Pioneer Mail Picnic at 10:30. I am taking a Gatorade and his bag of Fritos in case he wants a snack.

3:00 PM

We are back at the camp site. My 20 mile ride turned out go be more like 13-14. That is the difference between the trail and the road. I have said many times that our ancestors would have thought us insane for following the PCT route. It goes many places no one of sound mind would go unless, like modern Americans, it is done for recreation only.

I rode from Pioneer Mail, where I met Dan, to Desert View and to the store beyond where I got an ice cream bar. I got back to camp at 12:30, put the bike away, changed clothes and drove to Sunrise Trailhead. Dan came in about 1:00. He did only 12 miles today which leaves 17 to the next road crossing, Scissors Crossing, at trail mile 77. Monday he will do 23 to Barrel Springs at mile 90.

We drove back to the store to see if they had watermelon which they did not. We returned here. I had a sandwich then we drove over to the far end of the campground and showered. We are back with the afternoon off.

We saw a beautifully restored 1978 GMC Motorhome at the camp host site next to the showers. The owner told me they had paid $6,000 for it and had put $120,000 into it. It will pass as a new. GMC has made none since 1987.

8:45

We just got back from a walk to the observation platform a bit North and across the road from the campground entrance. Not much to report. The moon is a sliver sitting on the mountain to the west with Jupiter(?) Chasing into the ground.

We had a dinner of, you guessed it, Spam and eggs. All and all a pleasant afternoon and evening.