Hiking With My Sis

After a great breakfast at the Cajon Pass Best Western, Mom and Dad brought my sister and I to the trail. We stopped in Wrightwood to pick up Tower who was starting at the same spot. 

It was so nice to have my sister with me to share the hike. The hiking itself was rather boring, so it would have been miserable without her. 

We climbed to the top of Mt Baden-Powell, a 9399-foot peak. On one side the sky was clear and on the other clouds were building and billowing up. Most of our hike was on the clear side of the ridge but by late afternoon we were hiking in a fog. 

Near the top of Baden-Powell was a 1500-year old tree. Another hiker took our picture with it. Also there is a picture below of the most beautiful piped spring I've seen on the trail. 

This was the day of the confusing Endangered Species detour. There are a couple different options. By the time Jo and I got to the start of one of the detour options, the fog was pretty heavy and we were getting tired. We considered setting up camp at the picnic area where we were but decided to begin the road walk portion of the detour. We made it to another picnic area in the fog and decided to make camp. A couple other hikers came by as well as a friend looking for another hiker. She found her later and came back to get us. She said she could bring us to a campground in the sun at the trailhead where the side trail begins to join the PCT after the detour. We couldn't pack up fast enough!

The campground was great. There were trail angels there cooking spaghetti and garlic bread, and they had a fire burning. Five other hikers joined us in our spot and there were others there as well. It was a great ending to what could have been a wet, cold, miserable night.