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PCT day 12 - mile 209 to mile 230

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"When I was hiking AT in 2015, I got my legs after a month." Wall-E "We were walking one day and we can hear rattling, it was afternoon so we though it was cicadas, then we turned around the corner.. and it definitely wasn't cicadas." The Dude and Bugs. It was a long and unexpectedly interesting day. We woke up in the morning after a night full of noises ranging from neighbours shouting above us, to train horns and helicopters. Tom wanted to get McDonalds in the morning, I wasn't that hungry since I finished eating yesterday's pizza (microwave even had a pizza setting!) but I wouldn't say no to a coffee. We set off from the room at 6:45 and headed towards nearby McDs but unfortunately it was closed, so we went to a Starbucks instead. Uber driver picked us up half an hour later and by 8am we were back on the trail. I didn't have the best start, my shins were a bit sore from the four mile push through the windy desert last evening, so I said to Tom...

PCT day 11 - mile 185 to mile 209

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"Whoever says Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, has clearly never been to the large rusty pipe" kelseyjo4sho "As a pipe afficiando, I've seen bigger but to the pipes defence it was cold out. As far as large pipes go easily a 13 out of 8 on a Newtonian pipe scale" thebearded1ne Today was a big descent day (biggest on the entire PCT) from underneath San Jacinto mountain were we spend the night, to the town slightly off the PCT called Cabazon. We descended about 9.500 feet and it was a welcome change to the uphill struggle of the past three days. Night was freezing, I had to curl my feet up as they were getting really cold. I also had some bizarre dreams of playing football with Marlowe Theatre team in some kind of castle as a part of a staff party then going to the post office but really visiting my friends but when I rang their doorbell the door has been opened by Queen Elizabeth in her full royal outfit saying that my friends are living behind her house...