PCT by San Diego 1 week in Mid-June???

It’s already hot requiring 6L at the start, and you’ll likely need to keep hydrated with a lot of water/sport drink mix at that point.  Hauser canyon is rough and there’s a phone line to call the nearby county rangers.  I’d go up out the canyon only in the cooler evening or early morning with this drought.  However developed campsites at Lake Morena, Boulder Oak, and even Cibbetts can help.     There’s also the “malt” shop deli/grill at mile 20 (+) @ Lk Morena and general store at mile 40.  @ Mt Laguna plus a restaurant now owned by a French couple for breakfast/lunch (they had to import a burger chef reportedly) last I checked.. someone posted their burger on Fb a day ago.  If you miss the close, it might be canned chili at the general store (backpack food but mostly car/cabin camping type vittles in cans).

There’s also a swimming hole near interstate 8 but not sure what shape that would be in.

I’ll check up around those campsites. Looks though like I should schedule a different trip in winter so I don’t bake and dry out. I’m pretty acclimated to 25 deg at night and 70’s during the day and needing to carry 6 L of water is a pretty good indication I might be out of my league for this trip.

If I was to hike the southern California part of the PCT in that time frame, I’d stick to doing the higher elevation sections, say Hwy 15 to Aqua Dulce in the Angeles Forest, knowing that you’ll have some hot temperatures when you are in the lower elevations for the 1st day and the last 1 to 1.5 days, where you’d likely want to hike in the dark for part of the day.

Or the San Bernardino NF section from somewhere before Big Bear from a trailhead off Hwy 38 when the elevation starts to get higher to say Hwy 15. Though with the same comment about hiking in the dark when you get into hotter weather in lower elevations.

Otherwise, I’d be heading north to the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada for that long of a trip.

Thank you, Miner, for the guidance.