Me 2007-05-18 Yellow-legged Frog Detour
May 18th, 2007
Scatman was awake well before me and got our food down from the rope. I haven’t seen him all day but I know I was within 10 minutes of him at a water stop earlier. After dropping down to Highway 2 from Little Jimmy Campground the trail wound its way up over Mount Williamson and I knew it was going to be a hard day.
Back down to the highway and eventually to Eagle’s Roost picnic area. Here the PCT is closed because the mountain yellow-legged frog is some how endangered by our presence. I really wanted to walk the official mapped route but that wouldn’t be very cool after my encounter with the biker breaking the rules. So a 2 mile road walk began. I ran parts of it just because I could and it would amuse Vortex and Blue Sky. Getting back to the trail involved a mile or more of the Buckhart Trail at the bottom of which I saw two day hikers *and their dog* going into the frog-zone! Bloomin’ day hikers.
Coming back up to road level was a long process. I stopped every 10 minutes for water and the afternoon dragged on. But eventually I got there and the path got easier on the other side. Max was nearby and we reached Camp Glenwood together. That’s 400.7 miles from Campo. I last saw her at another crossing of Highway 2 as Fester and Wilderness Bob caught up and suggested there was a restaurant just over a mile down the road. I’m a mile along the trail now, camping alone. I know some others are in a campground a couple of miles from here but this is far enough for me today.
More photos of this day’s journey can be found at Wrightwood to Agua Dulce
Distance today: 20.2 miles. Total distance: 401.4 miles
May 18th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
watching you, Levi and Sarah are in Moab this weekend doing an anniversary (already) canyoneering adventure with a 80-90 ft repel. I am backup from Oregon. Love, Claudia
May 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am
Checked your progress and I will be in Northern San Diego this week. If there is anything you need/want, shoot me an E-mail with your request and meeting location. I have free time on Thursday night and Friday morning. Cheers – Steve (Levi’s Friend)
May 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Hi Steve, I’m at Agua Dulce now and this place is amazing, cars for hikers to use, showers and laundry. It’s so nice to be clean. The only thing I can think of right now is water for further up the trail. If you are driving back east below the sierras you’ll have to cross the PCT somehow. Put down a few bottles of water and hikers coming that way will appreciate it.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I’m starting to think your trail name needs to be changed to SunRunner.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Hey wow! I had read this entry when you posted it, and I just came across an article talking about the yellow legged frogs… crazy:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11922&feedId=online-news_rss20