Cold Creek to Red's Meadow
Aug. 22nd, 2008 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nibotOur fourth day of hiking was short. Almost immediately we entered the area burned in 1992 by the "Rainbow fire," a desolate area of dense underbrush and the trunks of trees whose crowns were burned up in the fire. Tacked to one such trunk we spotted a metal sign, "N.P.S. BOUNDARY." Devil's postpile, the home stretch!
We reached Rainbow Falls and encountered hordes and hordes of people wearing city clothes, talking on cell phones, many with small dogs. We had been in the wilderness for only a short time, but even so the crowds provided an unpleasant shock. I've carefully cropped them out of this photo:
Leaving Rainbow Falls, the crowds subsided again as we walked the last mile into the Red's Meadow pack station. I can only imagine what PCT thru-hikers feel when they get to this sign:
w00t!
We reached Rainbow Falls and encountered hordes and hordes of people wearing city clothes, talking on cell phones, many with small dogs. We had been in the wilderness for only a short time, but even so the crowds provided an unpleasant shock. I've carefully cropped them out of this photo:
Leaving Rainbow Falls, the crowds subsided again as we walked the last mile into the Red's Meadow pack station. I can only imagine what PCT thru-hikers feel when they get to this sign:
w00t!
