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PCT day 6 - mile 91 to mile 112

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"I tried to hike PCT in 2016 and I don't think I've enjoyed ten minutes of it" Salty. Compared to the last few days, today seemed quite uneventful, but on the other hand I wish the majority of the hike will look like this. We started at 7am, initial plan was to hike 18 miles to Warner Springs and call it a day, but as we hiked several people told us that there is no point going there as the facilities were quite poor and the better option would be to do 10 miles and get a hitch to a town called Ranchita few miles of the trail, we also passed through the first hundred miles marker along the way! When we arrived at the crossing Mike the store owner at Ranchita was just dropping someone back to the trail, so we got hitch back with him. We spend an hour chilling at his store, getting beer and sandwiches, I also kicked Tom's ass at a game of throwing huge washers into a hole (no idea what the games name was). Then Mike drove us back to trail and we hiked a beautiful 10...