{"id":11911,"date":"2026-07-06T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:12:16","slug":"pct-day-78-ca-section-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/pct-day-78-ca-section-h\/","title":{"rendered":"PCT DAY 78 – CA Section H"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mile 845.6 to 858.9 – 13.3 miles total hiked on PCT + 1.5 miles to Muir Trail Ranch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mile 846.6 HALFWAY POINT FOR CALIFORNIA PCT SECTIONS A-R!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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McClure Meadows is a fabulous place to camp, but it was too early in the day to stop. So, I just paused and admired the view for a bit before continuing north. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After McClure, some more meadows and Evolution Creek gave me something to look at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then a new bridge to try out. Two years ago, they had a temporary bouncy bridge to get across the river, but shortly after I passed through the area, the new bridge was put into place. This was my first chance to try it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muir Trail Rock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muir Trail Hut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then as the day was drawing to a close, I decided to take a Zero Night at Muir Trail Ranch. Real food for dinner and breakfast, a tent cabin to sleep in, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hot springs to wash up and the soak the sore body parts always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AND it turned out to be a good choice not to be on the trail in my tent: we had a good 3 hours of rain showers that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, still have NOT been rained on when on trail this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mile 845.6 to 858.9 – 13.3 miles total hiked on PCT + 1.5 miles to Muir Trail Ranch Mile 846.6…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PCT DAY 78 - CA Section H","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-ive-been","tag-35","tag-pct2026"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_4635.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg6j8i-367","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11917,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions\/11917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}