Day 9-(4)miles. Woke up this morning and started to pack up before heading down to the P.O. to see if hopefully my re-supply package had arrived. Ran into Chad and Veronica finally and found out it was tough for to make it through and that they had waited the storm out at barrel springs, they also mentioned that Shroomer and Granna lissa had an even worse go and had hitched from barrel to kickoff. It was good to see them and to know they all made it through safely. Also ran into the guys I was camped with on the ridge, nice guys hope to see them on the trail. Sweet the package had arrived now I can finish packing and hit the trail once more. But before I did I ran into Kiwi one of the flying kiwis from New Zealand really interesting fellow. Made it 4 miles in two hours and was hit with a trail dilemma, either stop here at a real nice campsite or to push on in hopes of putting on more miles and maybe find something of similar quality. My body wants to push on and put out more miles but my mind says you should enjoy this campsite nice ones have been few and far between. One interesting thing is that this campsite is actually private property however the owners have provided a great campsite for PCT hikers. Equipped with a fire ring a picnic table and an outhouse surrounded by 25'-30' tall oak trees with a creek running just below the site. Everyone I've talked to so far said they were heading back to lake morena for the kick off, party definitely not for me, but I will be interested to see how many people will be on the trail with me this week. Pushed on and made a few more miles to a agua caliente creek where there is no camp and to add to the ambience there's poison oak and ticks everywhere in fact I believe poison oak is the single most abundant plant in this whole canyon, so I will call this place poison oak canyon, wonderful. The sun has begun to fall below the canyon walls and I'm looking forward to an early start so that's all folks
Side note- Trail talk= Grubilicious not a real word but that is what pringles are. Any flavor doesn't matter they're just that good. I eat them when I'm in camp, I eat them when I'm hiking, breakfast, lunch, or dinner day or night.