June 9th and 10th

Saturday (6/9): I woke up on the ridge of a mountain with a complete view of the desert floor and a wind farm! I had decent motivation because I knew that coffee and a shower was only 11 miles away. The hike to the road went by really quickly, however, the last 4 or 5 miles were difficult. The trail went right through the wind farm that was part of my morning view. Now, if a location is windy enough to harness energy you would think that someone on the trail crew would say, that might really suck to hike through. Perhaps that was the determining factor in building the trail there. The PCT likes to take the most roundabout and absurd way of getting from one point to the other.

Once I got to the road Monkey was being asked a series of questions from the Tehachapi search and rescue team. The questions were about a man that supposedly was injured and needed to be rescued. The team was running around frantically getting there gear all set up while Baboon was answering questions like: did he have a hat on? Did he have a cell phone? Did he have enough water? I was a bit confused about the situation because if Baboon had passed a man needing to be rescued then surly I would have passed him also. It wasn't until the onslaught of questions were over that I was informed that it was a training exercise and Baboon and been solicited to play along. In return for the cooperation we got a ride to town in the search and rescue Bronco. The lady drove us to the post office then to the motel. I just hung out in the motel most of the night relaxing until I went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner.

Sunday (6/10): Lazy day. All I really did was go to the grocery store to buy 22 days worth of food.

Today: I'm going to head over to the post office and get the boxes of food sent out to Kennedy and Independence. Then back to the trail