[pct-l] Resupply and Hitchhiking...

[magicalnexus at yahoo.com (Magical Nexus)]

 Howdy,
 
I try to keep to resupply points within a few miles of the trail, and there are enough that are within five miles or so to avoid the really distant ones. 
 
A word about hitchhiking for those who think it is useful.... 
 
I got overheated and had to walk out to S1 and tried to hitchhike back to Mt. Laguna. No one would pick me up. No one. I tried waving a 20 dollar bill... no effect. When I was lying on the ground vomiting from heatstroke, the local mailman drove up, delivered a letter to a mailbox not five feet from where I was standing and left without even asking if I was ok. The local sheriff is supposed to have someone up that road every four hours but nobody came.... It wasn't until the next afternoon that a forest service employee stopped and asked if I was ok, and then called the sheriff on me claiming I was a trespasser that I got any help at all. By then I had managed to get some electrolytes in me and was halfway functional again so when the Sheriff asked me if I needed medical attention I said "no". He called the EMTs at Mt Laguna and asked them for a "courtesy call". I endured that, holed up with some V8 and Cytomax for two days and then headed back out, only to return home 6 weeks later
 to find a 600$ bill from the EMT service...
 
So I wouldn't plan on depending on hitchhiking to get you anywhere....
 
The longest diversion I make in the Southern sections to Kennedy Meadows is the ten miles to Tehachapi/Mojave - it is fairly critical unless you carry heavy from Agua Dulce.
 
Ted

		
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