Day 32; Mon May 28

(Stud) We spent most of the day at Hikertown waiting for it to get cool enough to hiking in th desert. Around 1 in the afternoon, Bob let us borrow the car and 6 hikers stuffed into a small Khia and drove miles to a Western Sizzler. Besides me and Dwight it was Mike, Sophia and Duddley DoRight (late 20's from Ottowa, Canada) and
Achilles (20ish--a PT from Wash, DC--we "met" him when we night hiked right over him when he was sleeping on the trail several night's back).

We left Hiker Heaven around 5--with a plan to hike the 16 miles to the first water cache. The hike was almost entirely flat along dirt roads and on top of the cement covered LA aquaduct. The day cooled downed nicely to the point we all put on wind breakers--and there was a strong and steady wind. The moon was nearly full and we only turned on our headlamps to verify we were headed the right direction when we saw the infrequent PCT signs.

We arrived at our destination without around midnight--exhausted. It was an easy hike--so I could only figure this was due to being up later than usual. There is one other tent set up nearby-but we'e not sure who it is.

(Dr Bug) Hikertown has roosters and chickens. The roosters announced the start of the day at 3:45 am sharp. We are on the edge of the Mojave desert and by 8 am the temperature was 80 degrees in the shade. We plotted our stategy for the up coming desert walk. It is broken down into two sections. First, a 16 mile walk to the only water in middle of the Mojave. A water spigot originating from the Los Angeles Aquiduct. Then a 24 mile section through desert, then chapperal and finally some higher elevation pines.

The idea was to hike the first part in late afternoon and evening, then get up the next day (as early as possible, maybe 4 am ish).