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PCT day 25 - mile 517 to mile 546

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"I will be silent for a bit, when I'm going uphill I can't talk" David. "I started hiking on March 1st, but I'm living in Big Bear so I already took 44 zero days" David. Today I walked through the infamous section of the trail along the Los Angeles aqueduct. It was a long stretch of flat, baren land with very few features, but it's precisely that what made it interesting. It was a definition of a desert section and before starting the trail that was what I thought first 700 miles will look like. Nugget had to go to the post office to bounce her laptop and excess food to the next convenient point along the trail and since she didn't plan to hike until evening I decided to head out by myself. Weather was supposed to get hot tomorrow and since today was relatively cold day on this stretch it was a perfect time to go through it during the day (a lot of people hike it over night). I put my earphones on and I was listening to the music most of the day,...