I write this lying in the tent. Everything is sore. My feet are throbbing. I have large worrying lumps on my collar bones where my backpack shoulder straps 'rest'. We each carried 5.5 liters of water. Both our packs weighed about 32 lbs when we left, which is supposed to be roughly the target weight for a 'light' hiker. And yet we ache.
It is 7:30pm, we made it 15 miles to Hauser Creek (which ain't got no creek). Dinner was a success in that we used our stove for the first time and didn't set my leg on fire. We also successfully used mayonnaise as oil, steamed tortillas and melted cheese. However, the falafel mix that we so loved in testing (well actually Tracy loved it), was, how do I put it, ...boggin... After a few forced bites we decided to walk a half mile down the road, dig a hole and bury it. Not joking.
Overall though the day was very exciting. We arrived at the Mexican border with 13 other hikers who also stayed with the wonderful trail angels, Scout and Frodo. They picked us up from Lucky Seafood, the bus stop where we arrived on our Lowfarebus.com from San Francisco (Fab bus ride complete with Vietnamese sandwiches).
I digress. We left the PCT monument at the Mexican border around 8am. Some bounded ahead and others, like ourselves, hung back and took things slowly for the first day. We met a few people on the trail, a Norwegian woman, a couple from Michigan, a Seattle lady and a fellow Scot. Luckily the weather was not hot but overcast and drizzly, which made hiking cool and bearable.
Sights: desert flowers, granite rocks, lots of spider webs covered in dew.
Pics to come...tech issues. Will take pics from iPhone for blogs in future and will upload regular camera pics when get hands on computer.
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