[pct-l] Tejon Ranch route

[Ned Tibbits]

Boy, reading those words sure brought back memories! My route in '74 was via 
Lake Hughes and down into Mojave for a food box at the P.O. then up Jawbone 
Canyon.

Mtnned

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hough on pct-l" <pcnst2001 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:43 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Tejon Ranch route


> On the current guidebook route, you can do all
> the aqueduct walking in half a day.
> To gain a little perspective, take a look sometime at
> the 1974 edition of the guidebook.   From Mt Gleason
> to Sequoia, it's almost all different.   For
> the section in question:
>
> You now have a choice between two undesirable routes.
> Farther north, the permanent and temporary PCT routes
> were routed by the Forest Service to run northeast
> along the crest of the Tehachapis.
> Armed guards of the giant
> Tejon Ranch will make sure you don't.   If you wish to
> parallel these routes, you can do so by following
> roads northeast through Antelope Valley and the
> western Mojave Desert to the town of Mojave.   If you
> have had trouble on the last dry stretch, then you
> should
> not attempt our revised temporary route with its
> 46-mile
> hot, dry, shadeless, forced march through the desert.
> Our recommended alternate route is to turn right
> (northeast) and follow the paved San Francisquito
> Canyon Road down into Leona Valley to Elizabeth Lake
> Road...[and eventually to Willow Springs and on to
> Mojave]
>
> The other revised temporary PCT route, 41 miles longer
> than than its alternate, crosses San Francisquito
> Canyon Road and continues west up the Leona Divide
> Fire Road... then descends to the small community of
> Lake Hughes... [and eventually almost to Quail Lake
> before heading back east along 138]
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