PCT: Days 4-5

Let’s see, where to start?  We made our way from Lake Morena to Mount Laguna over the last two days.  The weather continued to be outstanding with comfortable afternoons and nights around 30-40 degrees.  I don’t think I mentioned it in the last post but we’ve been treated to a near full moon since we started.  Its been beautiful but also feels like someone’s shining a flashlight in our tents all night long.

The morning from Mount Laguna started off damp with a heavy dew that clung to everything and then promptly froze.  We took a longer lunch than usual to dry the tents and quilts, but still made it an almost 12 mile day.  We camped in Fred Canyon for the night with 2 other hikers, Dan and Tony, who we’d seen off and on since we started. We got in late in the day and pretty much had time to setup camp, eat dinner and crash for the night.

Day 5 was a continued climb to Mount Laguna which started in our typical sage brush and cactus landscape and ended in a pine forest for a refreshing change.  We hiked alone for most of the morning and finished most of the last few miles into town with General.  Gavin got his trail name from Cuz along the way and will henceforth be known as Bat Boy. 

We picked up our resupply boxes in Mount Laguna and grabbed a room at the lodge for the next 2 nights so we could take a full zero and avoid an incoming storm forecast to bring rain, snow, and 55mph wind gusts.