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Apr 1, 2018 at 11:06 pm #3528112
Hi All,
I’ll be section hiking the Southern CA section of the PCT starting May 15th and am able to spend about a month on the trail. I’m wondering where the best places are for getting OFF the trail around the Walker Pass area (give or take 50 miles). I’m finding the logistics of getting off the trail much harder than those of getting on!
Thanks,
Nicole
Apr 4, 2018 at 4:31 am #3528638Nicole, Â The section of the PCT as it runs thru the Tehachapi’s isn’t easily accessible. As you have probably already figured out, the only “easy places to get off trail would be Hwy 58 between Mojave & Tehachapi, Hwy 178 at Walker Pass and at Kennedy Meadows. Â You could use Kelso Vally Road but I wouldn’t say that to be a “best place” to get off the trail. Â My first choice would be to either hike to Kennedy Meadows or, if possible, hike to Cottonwood Pass and exit out of Horseshoe Meadow, SW of Lone Pine.
Apr 7, 2018 at 4:28 am #3529222Walker pass use to have bus service. You should check if it still runs.
https://www.pcta.org/2014/public-transit-pct-walker-pass-lake-isabella-ridgecrest-23785/
That said, every year, plenty of hikers have hitched out of Kennedy Meadows to town to catch a bus either out of Lone Pine or Ridgecrest. Here are the regional bus routes of the area you are interested in: http://kerntransit.org/routes-and-schedules/
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