Final Preparations

Well, the time for prevarication is over. I packed up my ice axe and crampons for shipping to Idyllwild and purposefully marched to the post office.

The machine for sending parcels was out of charge….. so the time for prevarication was back! A nice Starbucks later I returned to successfully send the package.

Now the reason for this is that, rather unusually for this time of year, the San Jacinto mountains are still snow covered. While it may be gone when I arrive in a week or two, I can’t be sure. If it has gone, I’ll forward the package 500 miles to Kennedy Meadows, the gateway to the Sierra mountains.

A bowl of clam chowder later (I was in full scale avoidance mode), headed back and packed my sack to make sure all was fitting well. I then got ‘Guy on a Buffalo’ to give me a pack shakedown, he was ruthless so I sent some stuff straight to Kennedy Meadows as well.

Had some great conversations with former PCT through-hikers, who are below 😁