Get Outside and Explore
Are you looking for a fun art walk, right within the central valley of California? Exeter, CA is filled with a total of 31 colorful murals, you would not expect to see, in a small farming town. The murals celebrate farm workers, and agricultural heritage of the area.
My goal in 2023 is to complete Section A of the PCT, with is 107.1 miles long. Hope you will follow along on my backpacking journey.
I have thought and wondered about hiking the PCT a lot of the years. Living in Southern California, not far from the trail, I had hiked on short sections of it, out and back. I had not yet backpacked or thru hiked an entire section before. Section A starts in Campo, CA and is 107.1 miles long, ending in Warner Springs, CA. The prospect of hiking 100 miles was exciting to me. I knew the time to do it was in spring, after the nights warmed above freezing, and preferably after the winter time rains ended.
It was late February 2023 when I visited Palm Canyon. It is located within a rocky gorge, within the Indian Canyons area of the 32,000 acre Agua Caliente Indian Reservation. It is just south of the city of Palm Springs, along South Palm Canyon Drive.
I decided to hike the Boo Hoff Trail in La Quinta, CA in late February. The trail begins at The Cove trailhead, which is the jumping off point for a network of several other trails, such as the Cove to Lake Trail, and the Bear Creek Oasis, along with some unmarked ones. There is a free parking lot, restrooms, and a shade structure there.
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