Hot and dry - Mile 612 - Greg

June 2

Subway and Sugar High are likely to be off-line for a while as they are really in the boonies now, so I'll take a guess at what's up based on their track log, previous conversations and very terse texts.

They got a late start on Saturday as they had to catch a bus from Tehachapi to the trail and arrived in the heat of the afternoon at 2:30. They still managed about 7 miles before calling it a day.

Sunday was hot - 95 degrees but they still cranked out over 19 miles as they did yesterday in cooler conditions.They started the day today at mile 612, exactly 90 miles south of Kennedy Meadows where the Sierras begin. I'm sure they will be glad to leave the desert behind when they get there.

They are now about 30 miles into 80 miles of particularly dry trail conditions. Miles 583 to 663 (Tehachapi to Joshua Tree Spring) are probably the driest stretch on the PCT.

Bob Nolan wrote it; many (including Marty Robbins, my dad's hero) sang it:

"All day I face the barren waste without the taste of water,
Cool water.

Old Dan and I with throats burned dry and souls that cry for water,
Cool water."


Good thing L & M have a lot of water storage capacity, strong backs and the PCT water report.