Day Hike PCT SOBO from I-5 back up to Mt Ashland Canpground after bicycling down from CG

The  Mt Ashland Campground has become my "base camp" in this area. Spectacular view of Mt Shasta and the entire Shasta Valley/Siskiyou summit area, just a few hundred yards of gravel road away from the top of the paved road from I5 to the Mt Ashland Ski area, and two "well maintained" pit toilets to boot. No piped water, though there are nearby springs.  There seemed to be two other semi-resident campers using the facility as well.  I camped here when I first scouted out the area a few weeks back, again the night before I left my car there to bicycle back down into California to Seiad, and then yesterday evening after four days of hiking back to my car, and tonight after again bicycling down to I5 to finish off this section of PCT with a day-hike back up the hill (though it felt like the purpose of the hike back up the hill was for the thrill of doing that bicycle coast down that smooth road for a second time.)

Left my car in the morning about 9am, a half hour bicycle ride, made it back up the hill by 3PM, just a pleasant morning walk, it felt like.

Promptly drove back down to fetch my bicycle, headed on to Ashland, intending to do one or more of: grocery shopping to fill up my bear canister to send off to Tuolumne, scout out a possible overnight layover along the bottom end of the "alternative PCT route" from Mt Ashland directly into the town of Ashland along some gravel roads, locate the Ashland library and hostel described in Yogi's PCT guide, and maybe then take a drive north to scout out bicyclie-loop-back feasibility to/from the PCT trailhead in the Fish Lake area along Hwy 140 NE of Medford.  This would be the north end of my next logical PCT segment.  North of there would be Mt Mcloughlin and Crater lake. the trail past Mt Mcloughlin was still "snowed in" last I heard about two weeks ago, but south of there is low-elevation.

Ended up doing the grocery shopping, then driving up the alternative PCT route, having to drive longer than hoped to find a spot to overnight, by which time it was late enough to call it a day.  Decided to try out my new cell phone plan: Net10 $50/mo ATT option. (I had already activated that a week or so ago but hadn't had an occasion to use it yet.  But I guess I was in a radio "hole", so I decided to try for better reception further up the hill, and ended up back at my "base" camp.

I did manage to make some calls from there, announcing to some family members my decision to come back to the Bay Area by this weekend, hoping to arrange some times to visit.

So, I guess that solidified my plans, which I'd considered fluid until then - not sure whetehr I would try to squeeze in another PCT section first before "meeting up" with my CNPS friends camping at Woods Lake the second weekend of July, before finishing off my Tuolumne to Hwy50 "gap", or maybe just "abandoning" all that (for now) and continuing on north.