Woke up early with good feet, on the trail by 6:30. But after about 30 minutes I'd chosen one of the many dirt bike trails to fallow rather than the trail, so now I have to bushwhack all the way back to where I started from, lets try this again. Tylerhorse canyon is the last good water source for 25+ miles. It's a nice spot with a big shade tree to rest under and water flowing clear and cool from the creek below. As I get to the top of the ridge above tylerhorse I begin to scout the area below when from the bottom of the canyon pry 400 ft below I hear Damian yell out " Jason " and I yell back " yo " even though he left well after I he had past me when I got off trail. Rather hungry now so I decided to cook up a big breakfast of mashed potatoes and spam, then tanked up and filtered 3 1/2 liters of water before studying my maps and striking on. Blooms of yellow and purple covered the otherwise barren hills, I'm so lucky to be hiking through here now these flowers and canyons will be bone dry in no time. Then while wrapping around a corner I saw it the not so great 8, 8 switchbacks and 1600 ft up that is. Ran into carhop again and chatted with himfor a moment, also ran into a super nice patrol officer who was psyched to learn about my journey, after a long talk shook his hand and off I went. Now I hike through pinyon and coulter pines in a surprisingly cool forest on the north face of gamble spring canyon. Took a break in the shade of one of those trees before finishing the last 5 miles down oak canyon. THere I'd pass a huge wind farm with the biggest turbines I've ever seen before finally reaching tehachapi rd., from here I'll try to hitch into mojave in the morning. Ended my day sipping tea on a sandy flat among large oaks and the now almost dry oak creek.
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