Tag Archive for: Hiker Heaven

Volunteering at Hiker Heaven
Pacific Crest Trail, USAAgua Dulce
Countless miles between the garage and the guesthouse to deliver clean laundry to the hikers ;)
After a couple of nights as Donna's special guest in the trailer aka guesthouse and a real zero I decided to stay a few more days…

Day 29: Rocky is back
Pacific Crest Trail, USA20. Mai
Mile 454.4 (Hiker Heaven) to mile 465.4 bushcamp near road
11 miles - yippiehhh
My trailname is Rocky. Paul named me more than a week ago in Big Bear. I am named after Rocky Balboa the Boxer because I have a great comeback...
Today…

Day 28: The day before…
Pacific Crest Trail, USA19. Mai
0 miles
Today Navigator arrived. He was quite early arriving before lunch. I hugged a sweat soaked man. It was hot.
The next days are meant to be much cooler, around 20 degrees. (Celsius!)
Navigator and I sat together and made…

Day 27: Doggy day
Pacific Crest Trail, USA18. Mai
0 miles
Today was just another day at Hiker Heaven. Nothing special happened so far.
Same as every day I spent a huge amount of time to give a good pet to the dogs. They are wonderful.
Phil arrived today and later in the day…

Day 26: Shopping & Cooking
Pacific Crest Trail, USA17. Mai
0 miles
Today I joined iPod on his ride to R.E.I.
We left around ten with a van full of hikers. On our way to Northridge iPod gave us a great tour and told us some interesting facts about the region. The rest of the hikers didn't…

Day 25: Surprise for Donna&Jeff
Pacific Crest Trail, USA16. Mai
0 miles
Tonight I had enough beans for dinner to fly me to the moon...
Looking forward to the following night!
After dinner we had a little surprise for Donna & Jeff to celebrate their wedding anniversary. 24 years? 34? I…

Day 24: Thank you
Pacific Crest Trail, USA15. Mai
0 miles
Volunteering is hard work. That's what I learned today. Countrygold had one day off and I took over his duty of washing the hiker clothes. It was still early in the morning when every other volunteer disappeared, busy doing…

Day 23: I am a volunteer
Pacific Crest Trail, USA14. Mai
0 miles
Just came back into my tent from dinner. Dinner with my new volunteer friends Burning Daylight, iPod, Countrygold and Donna&Jeff Saufley.
It was very nice. Burning Daylight served some Potato salad, beans, some Kind…

Day 22: Hiker Heaven
Pacific Crest Trail, USAFriday, 13. Mai
0 miles
The sun was shining into my tent. Time to get out of my sleeping bag. What for? I didn't know.
In the morning I went on a ride to the local supermarket - Sweetwater Farms grocery. They have a nice selection of…