{"id":2053,"date":"2019-04-21T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2019-06-20T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:44:20","slug":"day-1-mexican-border-to-lake-morena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/04\/21\/day-1-mexican-border-to-lake-morena\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: Mexican border to Lake Morena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just realised that the previous entry was labeled &#8220;Day -1&#8221; but that was yesterday. I don&#8217;t know what happened to Day 0.So our day started at 5am when we got up, packed up our last few things and joined another 20 excited hikers for breakfast (yet another generosity from Scout and Frodo). Then at 6am sharp we were taken in a convoy of cars (more kind volunteers) to the start of the PCT near Campo and right on the Mexican border. Yes, there is a wall. We touched it so we can say that we have actually gone from border to border.<img data-attachment-id=\"2055\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/04\/21\/day-1-mexican-border-to-lake-morena\/img_27373558929089147335564\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3648,5472\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_27373558929089147335564.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564-683x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2055 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564.jpg\" width=\"3648\" height=\"5472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564.jpg 3648w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27373558929089147335564-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3648px) 100vw, 3648px\" \/>After a group photo and a few words of wisdom from some PCTA volunteers, we were on our way.<img class=\"size-full\" data-wpid=\"45\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_2749-017212630508469776609.jpeg\" \/>Our ambitious goal was to walk 20 miles to Lake Morena, which turned out to be a strenuous start, but we arrived in good spirits which were further lifted when we encountered our trail magic. Alice &#8220;Stone dancer&#8221; who through hiked some years ago has been greeting hikers at Lake Morena with a hug and drink and food since 2000.<img data-attachment-id=\"2056\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/04\/21\/day-1-mexican-border-to-lake-morena\/img_27655495208117752448516\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_27655495208117752448516.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516-1024x683.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2056 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_27655495208117752448516-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/>We had a number of reasons for pushing through to Lake Morena : there was a campground with 50c hot showers, and a store that sold malted thickshakes.As darkness fell, we cracked open our brand new tent which turned out to be easy to put up, and so we had a good night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realised that the previous entry was labeled &#8220;Day -1&#8221; but that was yesterday. I don&#8217;t know what happened to Day 0.So our day started at 5am when we got up, packed up our last few things and joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2727-01-1.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-x7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}