Mt Baden-Powell

This Pie-Eating Contest is Hereby Complete

This Pie-Eating Contest is Hereby Complete

(If backpacking is to thru-hiking as eating a bite of delicious pie is to entering a pie-eating contest)

Alone On the Trail But Never Far From Civilization

Alone On the Trail But Never Far From Civilization

Rain in SoCal, very fresh fires, a bonus town night, and solitude on the trail as we transition from the San Gabriels to the San Bernadino Mountains

Desperados and Boy Scouts in the San Gabriel Mountains

Angeles Crest through the San Gabriel Mountains, section hikers day hiking, Coulter Pine (a new tree), poodle dog bush, Boy Scouts aplenty, and brekkie with friends