Well it started raining during the night. We had no water for breakfast so we didn’t hang around. We broke camp around 7 am and started hiking. It continued to rain and we were told later that it was an inch of rain and there were flash flood warnings. it was certainly muddy and slippery in places.

We hiked about 4 miles until we got to a water source. We made some hot chocolate and ate some oatmeal there. The rain had paused to a mist so we spent about an hour there sheltered under some trees.

Then we started hiking up. We just came down about a thousand feet and now we are going back up to about 3500 ft.

A little like yesterday. The trail is overgrown and there’s barely any room to hike single file.

We have to hike about 5 miles more before we get to Lake Morena.

It continues to rain and it’s a little cold out, but the views are beautiful and there’s a lot to see.

We rest at rocks we can sit on for a few minutes and then continue on.

We should have done a few practice hikes or at least a few walks but we just didn’t have the time. Its been slow going for us but in time we hope to speed up a little bit.

The rain lets up for a little bit then it comes back and it’s mixes with hail. Not pleasant.

We are almost there, we managed 9 miles today, and got into Lake Morena around 3:30 and headed to the Malt Shop. a typical stop for a PCT hiker. There was a little heater going in there and it was lovely. The person put on a fresh pot of coffee for me and it was just what I needed!

One of the other hikers reached out to me and said that they were going to get a cabin for the night and another hiker had room in his cabin for us if we were interested. She also said there would be trail magic that night in the park camp ground we would be at.

It had been raining pretty much all day, we were soaked to the bone and cold. It sounded marvelous to us.

We met with our cabin mate and dropped our gear and headed right back out for the trail magic dinner.

We met Legend, a former PCT hiker and a Trail Angel, he shook my hand and couldn’t believe how cold I was. He then immediately took off his coat and had me remove my soaking wet rain jacket and zipped me up into his.

They had made pasta and it was Hot and delicious! Most of the other hikers were there and it was a fun time. We were told to come back for Breakfast the next morning.

These Trail Angels are marvelous!

So breakfast back at the campground pavilion,

Until then, be well.