Rest Day in Idyllwild

I made it to Idyllwild.  The original plan was to go straight to the 10 HW, but I ran into too much snow, I made it over the ridge into little Tahquitz valley,  and pushed threw about two miles of snow, following someone else's footsteps, and at a point they disappeared so I had to do a snow camp, I couldn't make it to Little Tahquitz Creek, to get water, but then I had to make water by melting snow with my stove (Jet Boil), I had to make the decision, should I try to push through the snow, and try to find my way into the town, without a trail, with about 4 ft of snow on the trail.  So what I decided the safest thing would be to do, would be to go back.  I did have to go about six miles back to Spitler Trail, then five miles down to the road, and i did fortunately ran into twist and tailgate, on the trail and told them what was happening with me and the snow and convinced them to go to town, because of conditions, so now I'm hangin out in Idyllwild with a bunch of PCT hikers, all super nice.  Whats next, well I am going to get dropped off the 10 tomorrow. I have hiked all these trails before so I don't feel bad trying to not push through the snow.  I expect it will take me somewhere between 4 and 5 days to Big Bear. -Carl Richardson

Rest day for my blistered feet