Up early as the rain eased and Freddy and Dimitri had soaking kit. The night was very difficult to sleep in, and the driving rain gave me the odd fine misting of water, making it though the flysheet.

We packed up our gear, got back into our damp clothes and skittled off quite fast to warm up. Thankfully the storm was passing and we progressively got more sun and more heat.

It wasn’t an option for the others to use their tents without a chance to dry out, and would have been unpleasant for me, so we hiked the 17.9 miles through to scissors crossing and hitch to the lovely little town of Julian. Views are stunning in this section.

Took a while to get hitches, ended up in the back of a mini being driven around bendy mountain roads by two women who were probably stoned… Fun times!

Four of us are now in a very steamy, smelly room. The hiker high life.