It was a beautiful day for hiking--clear blue skys, breezy and the temperature never seemed to get above the high 80's. The first part of the day was along sunny, high ridgelines in the rocky terraine of the chapparel. Lots of wildflowers in this section. By noon we were hiking along a grassy creek with large live oaks. we stopped in a grove of oaks for lunch, set up our tarp as a sun shade a took a nice nap.
The hike to Mt Laguna in the afternoon was even more pleasant. It cooled down a bit and the terrain changed to large white pines and a gentle uphill to Mount Laguna.
We rached the small grocery store there just before it closed and resupplied our food. The parents of one of the hikers pulled in not long after we arrived and were givng out pizza, cokes and home made fruit bars. That's the beauty of hiking--nice people seem to show up from nowhere.
From there, Leslie, Sober Joe (a hiker we met when we stopped for dinner last night) hiked on past dark--intending to stop at the Mt Laguna Campground. We apparently overshot it and ended up at the Shriners Campground where the manager is letting us stay for free. We were able to take hot showers and wash our clothes out with the shampoo she gave us. I think it will be cooler tonite since the wind is chilly. Hope it's not too cold because we convinced Leslie to send her down jacket ahead.
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