Our most exciting and beautiful day yet on the PCT!!! Walked to the Cinnamon roll bakery for breakfast, (yummm) then caught a ride up to the trail with a guy from town who is on the rescue team and told us about a fire that had just started behind Mt. Baldy that morning. Hit the trail in the crazy wind, I was getting blown all over the place! Crazy!!! By 1030, we were to the parking lot before our big climb up Baden-Powell and found a note from another hiker saying that crampons and ice axe were necessary........eeeek, but we decided to go see for ourselves (many hikers do not have any experience hiking in snow out here) Sure enough, we made our way up the mountain and there were small patches of snow at first, but nothing scary, then the snow got deeper, but it was close to noon and the snow was soft, so it wasn't scary at all. It was actually fun and made for some great pictures (which I'll attatch later!!) We made our way to the summit and we could see the smoke from the fire over by Mt. Baldy, it looked rather serious, esp with all the wind blowing around. We followed the ridge for a couple miles, trying to avoid the 6 foot suncups for as long as possible, camped at the bottom of the mtn after about 16 miles this day.
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