Saturday, October 3rd, 2026

Answer: Because

With the wide-open sky overnight, I set up my action camera and captured the Milky Way moving through the sky.

And my iPhone took some nice pictures overnight as well.

It is scenes like this that sometimes makes it hard to get out of the campsite in the morning. But the delay is usually worth it too.

Then it was more hiking along the ridges, or “crests”, if you will.

Mile 1610.2 to 1621.5 – 11.3 miles total hiked on PCT