Day 21
Today's Miles: 27.2
We celebrated my birthday by doing our biggest miles yet! We started the day departing from Idyllwild with a ride from trail angel Dave to Black Mountain Road. Dave was awesome, we signed the register in his car and he sent us on our way with a packet of lifesavers each.
Twist waiting for our ride outside the Inn.
The climb up Black Mountain road was surprisingly nice. There was water flowing everywhere and the views were great.
The trail out of the San Jacinto Mountains was a long hot 15 miles downhill. The torturous thing about it was that we could literally see the only water (a water fountain), below us almost the entire time. But we were able to get some great views of Mt. San Jacinto as well as a bird's eye view of the desert on the way down.
(don't mind my fingers in the way...)
The descent was pretty eventful, our Rattle Snake count rose by two to total four now for the trip. One startled Twist off of some rocks while the other about scared me off a cliff when it decided to rattle at the last minute. Also, we passed mile 200!
After Zigging and Zagging down the mountain, we reached the desert floor just as the sun was beginning to set.
By ending the climb down we were rewarded with hands down, the best looking water fountain either of us had ever seen!
We stopped there to recharge for about half an hour, and set off for the trail angel home of Ziggy and The Bear five miles away. We arrived about a half an hour after dark and were joined there by Steve, Waldo, Oops, and One Ton. Cowboy camping in their back yard we tried in vain to stay awake for the meteor shower that night, but we were just too whipped from the day's hike. The next few days it's on to Big Bear, where we hope to be by Tuesday, but no later than Wednesday.
-Tailgate
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