Me 2007-05-16 Uphill to the last
May 16th, 2007
An early morning start and we found the missing cache just 100m or so after the place we turned back last night. I took a litre and it was really useful because climbing 5000 ft today was hard. There were some incredible views along the way. Cajon (pronounced “ca-hone”) Pass where I-15 lies was full of low lying cloud and as I went higher it slowly faded away. First revealing the huge power-line towers we went under yesterday, and then sadly revealing the yellowy smog that hangs there all the time.
Scatman is a fast walker and I mostly saw him as he packed up from taking rests along the way until we stopped together for lunch just before the road at the top of the ridge. From there we could see Wrightwood down the hill but it was still 8 miles by trail. As soon as Vortex and Sky Blue turned up we got moving to make sure we met our trail angel at Highway 2. A few years ago a major landslide took out a chunk of the highway so there is no longer any through traffic. We called ahead from I-15 to a very nice local lady called Carol who drove us down the 6 miles to town this evening.
After scoffing an entire pizza (12″ wide and lots of toppings) myself I joined the others at the phone boxes and we managed to find a local angel with a spare room. Not only that but she came and picked us up and is going to do our laundry in the morning!
Location: Wrightwood
More photos of this day’s journey can be found at Idyllwild to Wrightwood