May 12
Melinda and Liz returned to the trail at Big Bear (6,750 feet) and put in an impressive 19.45 miles before calling it a day.
For 2 days in a row they stopped just shy of the 20 mile mark, their best days yet. Based on this, Liz's feet must be back in fine form.
May 13
Today "Subway" and "Sugar High" left at 7:14 and put in 19.23 miles before knocking off for the day, crossing the 300 mile mark and ending at 304.80. They are camped in a gully, so hopefully the rain that's coming will hold off until they are up and out of there.
They must have been tuckered out today; they stopped 3 miles shy of a
nice hot spring, which I'm sure would have felt great at the end of a
long day.
About that rain; at Arrowhead Lake (5,000 feet) the chances go over 50% starting at about 2:00 PM Thursday and peak at 95% at about 9:00 AM Friday. For the 5 hours prior to 9:00 it could be snow instead of rain at the lake. But Mel and Liz are at 4000 feet now and will be descending further, so it would have to be a really cold storm to snow on them.
Per the forecast, the storm is pretty much gone by 9:00 PM Friday night.
Try to stay warm and dry guys!
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