[pct-l] Mojave & Tehachapi

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I've resupplied in Tehachapi a few times.  Great town for finding things a 
hiker needs.  It's very, very spread out.

Last year doing a buy-as-you-go strategy I tried Mojave for my first time. 
I got a ride to Motel 6.  It has a great supermarket right there next to it. 
Laundry was a short walk from my motel room.  There was a library right 
there with internet access, but it was closed.  Resupply was easy and done 
in no time.  There was lots of good food cheap at an order over the counter 
place next to the motel.  I don't remember a better quick buy-as-you-go town 
experience.

A Tehachapi resident friend still ended up picking me up at Hwy 58 the next 
day after I hiked another 7 miles.  I went into Tehachapi, saw a movie, had 
good coffee and vegetarian food at the local coffee house, and returned to 
the trail the next morning.

I've never had an easy hitch to anywhere in this area.

Hitching Hwy 58 into Tehachapi cuts a 25 mile waterless stretch into only 18 
miles to Golden Oaks Springs when you return.  In 2007 it took 2 hours to 
get a ride with a ride bride, Not-a-Moose.  The post office, a motel and a 
Denny's (and a gas station for Heet) are all right there at the highway 
exit.  Sending resupply you could be in and out of town without having to 
walk the miles required to get around Tehachapi.  Just north of Hwy 58 on 
the trail is a very long exposed climb that you do with full water and 
resupply.  Starting back at Hwy 58 you can more accurately plan that climb 
at a cooler time and start out with a slightly lighter pack.




Lightweight Backpacking
The fun goes up when the weight goes down
-Warner Springs Monty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Wormington" <airecrew at netzero.net>
To: <janetgr at cableone.net>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:23 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Mojave & Tehachapi


> If you have a choice Tehachapi is much nicer.  I lucked out and caught a
> ride.  The afternoon bus also stops there on the way to Bakersfield.
> Also better food .  They have a coffee house, Mama Hillybeans, and at
> City Slickers the  food was awesome, huge gourmet hamburger big enough
> for two and 12 beer taps.  I hope to take my husband back there
> sometime.  There is also another restaurant across from Mama's I can't
> remember the name, where I had breakfast.  For hikers getting off at
> Cottonwood Creek, taking Rosamond Blvd. to Rosamond, the M & G Cafe is
> diagonally across from the PO on a side street, which also has the
> senior center farther down the same street, and a county transit bus
> stop.  The Center also has bathrooms you can use to clean up, especially
> after spending the night in a wind storm with a face plastered with dirt.
>
> I stayed in Mojave two nights section hiking, and would not again.  I
> believe it was Day's Inn in Mojave that will pick you up.  There's
> nothing to do in that town except get a haircut, and the grocery store
> isn't handy.  Enjoy your hike.
>
> Jollylopper
> Sierra Valley
>
>
>
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