Mile 1190.3 to 1196.5 – 6.2 miles total hiked on PCT

Due to the lack of cell service and even bandwidth on Wi-Fi in Sierra city, uploading most of my photos will have to wait until I have some decent bandwidth. BUT I will upload what I can whenever I have some bandwidth, even it’s just one photo and a brief description of what happened this particular day.

This would be a short day since I only had a little over 6 miles to go to finish California section L and reach Sierra city.

Mostly the day was spent going through forests with the occasional view of the surrounding mountains. Pleasant and mostly downhill.

A few creeks to crossover before I hit the raging North Yuba River.

When I say ‘raging’, I mean flowing a lot more than anything else I’ve seen recently on the trail. In the Sierra, there were a lot of water sources and a lot of rivers and creeks.

As I get further into northern California and further into August, those are gonna start to dry up. Literally.

Once past the north Yuba river, I reached highway 49 and got a ride into Sierra city.

I was going to stay at a resort that had (as far as I could see) the only restaurant for dinner and breakfast.

Otherwise, I went to the store got some Diet Coke, ice cream, and a strawberry shake. I also picked up some resupply packages from home, from Amazon, and from big Agnes. Big Agnes was replacement zippers for my tent. I have the universal ones on there right now that are working so I’m not planning on using these… yet.

I was supposed to get a shipment from Osprey, but it was not there. I checked at the post office and they didn’t seem to have it. The next morning I went to ship some of my extra food to Old Station, which was the second resupply location from Sierra city. I was counting on Belsen to have enough food to buy.

By amazing coincidence, the owner of the store sent his grandson to pick up their mail and the postmaster found my package in their PO Box.

Great… except it was the wrong belt buckle. It was double the size of the belt buckle on the osprey Exos pro 55 that I was using. The the buckle on my pack has been behaving itself, so it might not be a big deal. We’ll see what they say when I can let them know.

The rest of the day was spent washing my clothes, treating my clothes with Permithrin to keep the insects away, and sorting through my resupply box.

Oh, and taking a nice long shower. Even if it was only two nights away from Truckee, it still felt good to take a nice hot shower.

The next morning I had breakfast and I had lunch at the store before headed back to the trail midday.