Mile 164.2 to 175 – 12 miles total hiked

This day was very hardship slog.

I knew it was coming, but this particular part of the trail has a whole bunch of different ridge lines that the PCT ran along the ridges, but also wove its way between the south and the north sides of those ridges. Repeatedly.

It’s hard to get the real picture of how rough this was by just seeing the pictures below.

If there was more snow and ice on the trail, then it can get very dangerous to cross this area.

Fortunately, the March heat wave in the area and had melted out most of the snow and ice, but there was still some that I had to be careful crossing.

As evening approached, I started thinking about just finding any kind of campsite along the ridge. But the only places I found were very windy so I forged on.

At last the role of ridgelines was over and a very popular camp area appeared before me!

Still a little windy, but great view and I was glad to have finished the Ridgeline before nighttime. I would not have to complete it in the morning. But they’re always challenges on every part of the PCT.