Day 10: mountain lions?
Today was a hard slog! We headed up into the San Jacinto mountains getting up to 8000′. The first half of the day we walked entirely in cloud, quite cool and very windy. Eagle-eyed Ros noticed some footprints in the trail which we are pretty sure are from a mountain lion.
At times the wind was so strong that it almost blew Ros over. But the clouds disappeared and revealed fantastic views.
We walked up and up along a line of ridges to our campsite at mile 171. The metal box was some debris but it formed a great wind shield for our stove.
I believe mountain lions are potentially more dangerous than wombats 😉
That great photo in the cloud was so unexpected after all the previous days. I smiled at the mental image of Ros battling against the wind.
Beautiful scenery.