Chance09 - Pacific Crest Trail Journal - 2010
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Chris "Chance" dePolo
City: Nokesville
State: VA
Begins: May 1, 2010
Direction: Northbound
Daily Summary
Date: Sat, Sep 4th, 2010
Trip Distance: 6.0
Journal Stats
Entry Visits: 1,917
Journal Visits: 14,526
Guestbook Views: 447
Guestbook Entrys: 16
Up at 1 am
It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be waking up at one. I'm getting used to night hiking and don't mind it as much as I used to. If i hike for 8 hours straight I should be able to catch the 9 am bus into stehkin. 22 miles and counting.
I probabbly would have made the bus had I not gotten lost not once, but twice. The signs here aren't very clear and I took the wrong trail and only realized it once I was in waist high brush and could no longer see trail. I have to say being lost in the dark is not a plesant experience. Being lost doesn't faze me most of the time, being lost in the dark with a dimming headlamp battery does.
I sat down to relax, calm my thoughts, pull out my maps and figure out where I was and found that my getting getting "lost" was actually more of a shortcut. I figure it saved me a 1,000 feet of elevation and maybe a mile or two while taking me right back to the PCT. Not bad, not bad at all.