April 17, 2008

A long day, we lost the trail at one point a few miles before Lake Morena and had to backtrack. We also took a "shortcut" down a drainage area -- very steep & rocky. Joanne found a solio and I lost my Marmot dri-clime jacket. Stopped at Lake Morena ranger station to clean up and camel up with water, then it was a pretty easy 6 miles or so to Boulder Oaks camp ground. We passed under a bridge, and by a highway. The oaks and boulders were in very lovely meadows, we even saw what I am pretty sure was a turkey. There wasn't any water at Boulder Oaks -- a sign on the fence said it was turned off becausde it had been deemed unsuitable for human consumption, so we had to filter water from a nearby creek which was kind of cow-ed up. (It tasted fine though, so whatever.)
We saw a lot of rodent holes around the campground, so we rigged up a rodent hang on the flagpole using the flag rope and an iron railroad rail that was on the ground, propped up on the fee receptacle box. It was ridiculous and ingenious.