Up high

Here we are back up at 8000 ft right beside some highway. We were too tired to have another workout on the stair step machine. Our life has been reduced to approximately 8 cardiovascular workouts per day of one hour duration each. It's like we are going to the gym 8 times per day. We couldn't face our last workout so we're camped close to a road. Traffic should die down soon. 

     Well we appear to have lost Topo again. Her leg and lower back we're hurting her so she cut out early to hitch a ride into Big Bear City. We will arrive there tomorrow and hook up again. 

       Today hiking conditions were perfect- breezy, with some shade and a fair amount of traversing. The only problem was we had to carry  an added 6 liters of water each. No more rivers or springs after mile 239 until mile 266 in Big Bear. After TC's little scare yesterday we overcompensated. She drank like a sailor all day long, happy to be urinating every 5 minutes. Four liters each would have sufficed. 

Looking back at Jacinto.  60 plus miles for us ...probably only 25 as the crow flies.