The cold doesn’t want to leave me and is making everything a little more difficult, as if it wasn’t difficult enough already.
Starting from a camp in a wooded area that avoided sub-zero temperatures and a tent frozen with condensation, the trail returned to the typical desert environment of the past few days. And the sun returned to its desert-level warmth a few hours after dawn. In addition, having to climb up to Mount Laguna’s 1800 meters or so, the trail was definitely more challenging than the day before – even though we had planned to do a little less mileage. The last few miles before reaching Mount Laguna were almost relaxing inside a coniferous forest that is typical of Mediterranean areas (like Liguria or Sardinia). Mount Laguna is an outpost where less than a hundred people live there. It is mostly a summer vacation destination.
