The beautiful desert color palette.
The Cajón Junction McDonald’s is the only fast food establishment directly on the trail…
… as you can imagine, it’s packed with hikers.
McDonald’s never tasted so good.
Trail baby!
Highway tunnels can be a bit intimidating.
Memorial for a longtime trail crew leader outside of Cajón Junction.
Sunrise camping on a high ridge outside of Wrightwood.
Clouds down in the valley towards LA.
Some trail magic entering Wrightwood.
One pair of shoes down.
A four legged friend on trail.
Climbing up Mount Baden Powell.
Baden Powell summit.
Hiking through a burn scar outside of Wrightwood, CA.
A small section of the PCT is closed due to endangered frogs so it detours on highway 2. Luckily, highway 2 is still closed to cars for the season so it makes for some easy walking.
An eroded (yet still living) tree precariously perched off highway 2.
More and more rattlesnakes.
Some hiker art.
Hiking through clouds of mountain lilac.
Amazing sunset from a tent site above the clouds.
Trail headshot courtesy of trail angel Silly Billy. We were on top of the mountain in the background about 36 hours before the picture was taken.