After the company and food of the previous night I slept much better and got up pretty early – it’s so much nicer preparing breakfast on a table!I left at 7am, most unlike me, and polished off the 13 mile gentle descent into Cajon Pass by just after 12.It was a bit of a shock, from the wilderness to a 10 lane highway with multiple railway lines! But…. there is a McDonalds! Those who know me know that I wouldn’t normally be excited by this, but I had been obsessing about milkshake, and it was so good.Better still, Jim turned up by chance (he’d been in the Best Western hotel).Hiked another 5 miles out from the pass, climbing all the time to a nice campspot.Now tomorrow will be fun, lots of climbing and I really want to get into Wrightwood – but it’s 21 miles. We’ll see how it goes.









