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After I had breakfast and packed my gear, I made my way to the nearby water paint and fill up on water that would hopefully get me the nine miles to Scissors Crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scissors Crossing what is the name for where two highways meet in a form that looks a little bit like scissors. Not much around it, but it was one of the more well known stops on the PCT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because there was not much to see along the way otherwise. Yeah, the ridge lines and the hills and the desert terrain all around is nice and interesting look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\u2026 particular section had a lot of similar views and endless walking through similar ridge lines and flat desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that is PCT hikers signed up for. Of course, knowing about it and actually hiking, it brings different emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the endless back-and-forth along the ridge lines that snaked in and out of water washes made from the yearly melting of snow (although all that water is now gone), the trail became very straight and very similar, looking to every other part of the straight trail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After those long straight sections of trail, the first paved road I had seen in quite some time came into view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That ment Scissors Crossing was close. As I walked on the trail that paralleled the highway, pulled up and the occupants called out my trail name (WanderingJim). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had been considering camping at a RV park, but the long endless desert made me change my plans. So I would get a ride into Julian, which is a nice town about 18 miles away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I take a zero night at a hotel and get some of that real food that I missed in Mt Laguna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and get free pie from Mom\u2019s Pies. That was one of the perks of hiking the endless desert and going into Julian: PCT hikers get free pie for dessert. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PCT mile 77 in 8.5 miles. Seemed a lot longer than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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