PCT Kickoff weekend

I am writing this post from Lordsburg, NM after arriving to town this morning after a ten hour Greyhound bus ride from San Diego. We had a great weekend at the kickoff party, we spent a lot of time with Brazil Nut's friends from her PCT hike in 2010. The kickoff party is a wonderful reunion for former hikers and a great way for this years hikers to get together and meet one another. Throughout the weekend there are vendors, speakers, demonstrations and lots of food, all located at Lake Morena park, 20 trail miles into the PCT. All around it was a great time but now we are getting ready for our journey which begins tomorrow morning!

Lake Morena County Park

There is a trail angel in town who we are meeting at 7 am who will drive us to the boarder and from there we will begin our hike. We met some other hikers over the weekend who are also on the CDT, just a few weeks ahead of us. They gave us some very helpful information about water on the trail, as it is very dry and hot here so water sources are few and far between. It is late and I am still trying to figure out how to upload pictures onto here, but I will update this as often as possible, but for now it's off to bed for some rest before hitting the trail in the morning!!