It looks like I've run out of time this spring... a backlog of things to try to handle closer to home, before embarking in July on a different adventure farther from home, a roadtrip with friends first to the Ruby Mts in Nevada, then onwards from there to Yellowstone and thereabouts with other friends, then way east to visit family, then eventually back west by next spring just in time to continue my PCT hike.
Maybe I'll get a chance somewhere in there to catch up on posting picts of my loitering on the PCT this spring (about 40,000 picts in 360 miles.)
I'm leaving the PCT at Islip Saddle in the San Gabriels just west of Wrightwood, where the Mountain Yellow Legged Frog Detour begins. I was last able to do a nice series of day-hikes with the aid of my bicycle. For example, leaving my car at Dawson Saddle and coasting my bicycle down to the Baden-Powell Trailhead at Vincent Gap one day, and down in the other direction to Islip Saddle the next, and hiking back to my car at Dawson Saddle each time, exploring many of the side trails to the peaks along the way. Another bicycle-assisted day-hike in this area was between Guffy Campground on the ridge above Wrightwood to Vincent Gap at the Baden Powell trailhead, which I hiked in reverse direction, north to south (actually west to east in that section,) after bicycling down from Guffy to Vincent Gap. Also while I was at the Guffy CG I out&backed the bit of trail east to the Acorn Canyon Trail junction (the spur trail down to Wrightwood.)
It seems that I could continue doing a series of short day hikes like this through at least the remaining portion of trail that roughly parallels Hwy 2 on the crest of the San Gabriels, but I am just running out of time, and am also surprisingly undecided about which "MYLFrog Detour" to take (a two mile "short-cut" road walk on Hwy 2 [duh!], or a 19 mile trek all the way down the mountain to and then through the Devils Punchbowl regional park, then all the way up the mountain again [huh?].)
So, I will save that decision and the rest of the trail for next year hopefully.
It seems that I could continue doing a series of short day hikes like this through at least the remaining portion of trail that roughly parallels Hwy 2 on the crest of the San Gabriels, but I am just running out of time, and am also surprisingly undecided about which "MYLFrog Detour" to take (a two mile "short-cut" road walk on Hwy 2 [duh!], or a 19 mile trek all the way down the mountain to and then through the Devils Punchbowl regional park, then all the way up the mountain again [huh?].)
So, I will save that decision and the rest of the trail for next year hopefully.
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