Start: Ash Camp
End: tentsite at mile 1496
Miles covered: 26
PCT mile marker: 1496/2652
Highlight: Sometimes the best thing is just a super-light pack, the consequence of eating almost everything before heading into the next town for resupply.
Biggest challenge: Breaking through all of the spiderwebs across the trail first thing in the morning. (And the occasional mosquito, fly, gnat, or tiny insect that I haven’t been able to identify. They haven’t been as bad as they were in the Sierra section, but they never went away completely.)
A couple of weeks ago I was reading a hiker blog that had a glossary of hiking terms. It had a definition for “cobknocker”, That’s the name given to the hiker who takes out all the spider webs across the trail first thing in the morning. Wouldn’t be surprised if a few hikers had that as their trail name.