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0168 The Golden Spike - a Brass Commemorative Marker at PCT mile 445 where they officially finished the Pacific Crest Trail
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0169 Railroad Crossing at PCT mile 445 where the Golden Spike was made, officially finishing the Pacific Crest Trail
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0181 We started the hike on Angeles Forest Highway and Mount Gleason Road at the Mill Creek Summit
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0192 View from Mount Gleason Road near the Mill Creek Summit, looking north in the morning light
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0201 Me, posing on Mount Gleason Road with my vintage 1970s-era backpack, looking north toward Palmdale
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0209 After two miles of hiking on Mount Gleason Road, we found the spot where I cached two gallons of water earlier
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0213 Me, climbing up the steep hillside to Mount Gleason Road with my previously-stashed gallons of water
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0238 Poodle Dog Bush sending out last year's flower stalks directly at PCT hikers along the trail - Don't let it touch you!
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0239 The Pacific Crest Trail was seriously overgrown in the area near Mount Gleason - it was almost like bushwhacking
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0265 Lovely oak trees in one area where the Station Fire didn't burn, just east of Mount Gleason on the PCT
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0298 Panorama video from the PCT near the overgrown Big Buck Campground, east of Mount Gleason
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0301 Red ribbon marking a side trail to a small campsite at PCT mile 425 - we decided to camp there
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0306 It was hot and only noon so we set up the tent with a mylar space blanket to block the sun's rays
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0308 Vicki chilling inside the tent on a hot afternoon with the doors wide open to catch some breeze
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0314 Evening view north from our camp on the PCT with the lights of Palmdale in the distance
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0315 Mount Gleason as the sunset glow faded, with the constellation Orion in the sky up above
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0320 Vicki, ready to hike in the morning, with Mount Gleason behind her and buckthorn plants in the foregraound
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0334 We read that the PCT continued being overgrown for the next few miles so we headed for Mount Gleason Road instead
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0344 The locked gate at the top of Beartrap Canyon Road where it intersects Mount Gleason Road - note the workaround
