[pct-l] Section E Memories

[Hiker97 at aol.com (Hiker97@aol.com)]

Well, I guess to be honest I have to tell you the bad too.  Not  everything 
is fun and games out there.
 
When I finally got to Hwy. 138 going north after being out on the trail for  
3 days several weeks ago, Can'tQuit comes in about 10 minutes behind me to the 
 parked car.  I am dead beside the road leaning up against the bank.  I  
cannot move.  She immediately takes off her pack and takes off running  north 
along a road.  
 
She comes back in several minutes and says she just wanted to cover the  
trail section from Hwy. 138 to the school where we had her car parked several  
days earlier, when we hiked south from Cottonwood Canyon.
 
While she was gone, Pieces come in off the trail too and he understood what  
she was doing.  I just thought she had lost her mind.  Had become  delusional 
from the campaigning on the trail.  It sounded reasonable to  me.  After all I 
was beat and delusional leaning against the bank along  Hwy. 138 in the 
middle of a wonderful fall day.
 
Later in Palmdale, we went to a wonderful new Italian restaurant, where I  
had some of the best soup I have had in a long time.  I also had a nice  seafood 
salad with salmon.  I very fortuitously took a foam container for  leftovers 
to take to the Best Western, where I would be dropped off to  recover.  Of 
course, on the way there in Can'tQuit's Honda Pilot I promptly  threw everything 
up in the container.  I almost filled up this large  container and the floor 
of her vehicle would be next.  They had to carry my  pack and luggage to my 
room at the motel as that was way beyond my  abilities.  Nice.  Very nice end to 
my trip.  
 
Of course, they went on to finish the last small part of Section E the next  
two days.  Now I have to do that part alone from Cottonwood Canyon to  Willows 
Springs Road (?) in December if there is no snow.  
 
Sometimes I think I am in the wrong hobby.  By the way, don't ever  hike with 
me.  You will end up as a baby-sitter.
 
Your hiking buddy, Switchback
Trail Hardhead & Don't Know When He  Should Quit Hiker and Always Ready to 
Saddle Up to be Abused  Again