I didn’t sleep well because of the party the neighborhood dogs decided to have until 1am but I still woke up around 6. I made myself stay in bed for much longer because I knew I needed rest. Soon Jake was up and we made a plan to go get breakfast and head over to the hardware store to check it out.
The hardware store in Wrightwood has a little area out back exclusively for hikers with benches, shade and hiker boxes. The hiker boxes are places you can drop off stuff you no longer want and see if anyone has dropped anything you would like to have. Inside the store they had a good selection of hiker food and supplies. We signed the register and got our PCT pins, now we are officially official or something.
Back to the room to do laundry and some snacking. There wasn’t a machine so it was hand washing in the bathtub for us. Washing clothes by hand in bathtubs definitely doesn’t get all the dirt out but it does get the smells out.
Our dinner plan was to get steaks but again we weren’t able to. The only restaurant in town serving steaks apparently wasn’t open. We drank some gin next door while we were figuring this out and also figuring out rides around the fire closure we can’t hike around.
PCT Hike 