As promised, New Year’s Day saw several major changes at my place along the PCT, as I dug out the surfboard and re-themed for 2017.

Out with the old …

Front of 2016 Trail Register (click to enlarge)

Back of 2016 Trail Register (click to enlarge)

 

… and in with the new. “Walden” is born.

The slow trickle of southbound hikers continues. Based on signatures on my surfboard trail register and boot prints on the trail, I would estimate ten passed by this week. I got a shout out from one pair, Huckleberry and Macro, who included a couple pics of my place on their blog.

As always, click on the images below to view detail.

Met up with five sobo thru hikers at my place this weekend, including a foursome traveling as a group since Walker Pass.

Several more signatures from southbound hikers.

Based on footprints and sigs on my surfboard trail register, three sobo thru hikers passed by during the first week in October. (Click images to view detail.) Comparing this image to the last ones taken at the end of the nobo season, you can see just how much the desert sun has caused the “permanent” magic marker to fade.

Based on boot prints along the PCT on my property boundary, only a single hiker passed by over the weekend, leading me to decide to scale back the accoutrements at my place: the water, picnic tables, and library remain, but everything else (cooler with ice water, sodas and trash cans) goes. This is the last installment of my surf board trail register for the season. I am looking forward to it “resetting itself” in the desert sun in time for the much smaller SoBo season in the fall.

We’re reaching the end of the thru hiker season for the spring, with fewer than ten hikers a day passing by. As usual, the weekly update records the new signatures. All images are clickable to reveal detail.

Update of Trail Register surf board as of Sunday, May 22. As always, click images to view detail.

As usual, here are pics of my surfboard trail register. All images can be clicked to view detail.

The recent cold, wet weather put a damper on things over the weekend. The hikers that passed by told of a large tent city at the Community Center at Warner Springs, as hikers waited for the weather to improve. So, we can expect 60+ hikers passing through the day after the clouds lift. In the meantime, I did see a couple dozen hikers pass by. The surf board trail register records many new signatures since last weekend.

As always, images can be clicked to enlarge: