Journey Day 23 | PCT Day 23

Campsite along Holcomb Creek, California

5/9/85

Up and off to breakfast from Bluewater Lodge, a dilapidated crash pad in Big Bear City. Sent back unwanted food, gear, 14 post cards and lost travelers check form. 

Ready to go at noon, but classic “High Noon” was enough reason for us to hold out until 2 p.m. Walked the road into Fawnskin with newly heavy packs. Ate at a burger haven owned by the market owner, run by his son. 

Then up a dirt road into semi-wilderness. At about nine miles, we stopped along Holcomb Creek. Unfortunately we weren’t the first. Broken beer bottles, feces, toilet paper, etc. marred an otherwise nice campsite.