Kamlichee Ridge Draconius Go and Pokemon Go

A lot of roads are washed out and the mountains have snow and the days are short.  Time to hike close to home.  Today I made my second trip up Kamilchee Ridge starting near the Lake Isabella boat ramp.  I think the hike was 7 miles, but I’m not sure since my GPS is broken and I had to use my phone for navigation.

The view at the top is good but it was cloudy and rain was falling so I did not stay long.  I went up the power line mostly.  On the way down I took a different route.  In one spot all my maps show a road going through, but the road does not go through, it dead ends.   It does not even look like the road ever when through there.  

 There is a trail that connects  two roads together though, it was even flagged.

 I found that most tree farms have trails that make all the roads connect.  I think they are motorcycle trails.   A dead end road in a mature tree farm,  is almost never a reason to have to back track because there will nearly always be a trail at the end of the road.

I had both Draconius Go and Pokémon Go loaded for the entire hike.  I did not find as many Draconius Go stops (Pillars of Abundance)  as I had hoped and I ran out of eggs to hatch on the summit. 

In both games you hatch eggs by walking and you collect fresh eggs at stops.  Pokémon go has no stops in wild areas so I always just run out of eggs on my hikes and then turn the game off or walk my buddy pokemon.

Draconius go has pillars almost everywhere, but there was only one stop on the way up.  Draconius go is much more fun to play when hiking.

I waited at that one pillar stop for 15 minutes so I could spin it 3 times but no eggs dropped.  On the way back down I stopped for lunch and coffee at the Draconius Go stop and still no eggs were dropping. 

So I enchanted the pillar/ stop to drop only eggs.  With three spins I refilled my egg bag and was ready to go.  I did not want to walk three miles and not get any egg hatching credit! 

Now I feel like I have to go back at least a few times to visit my enchanted pillar.  I found a bunch of Chanterelles in the area on the way down.  I was surprised that they were in such good shape with all of the rain we have had this past few weeks. 

Hike started at ten am and ended at about 4pm.  

7.5 miles with 1,100 feet elevation gain (Cir)

dirt in my image sensor and too tired to fix it in post

Nice natural decommissioned road unlike the USFS monstrosities

Old roads are fun to hike on when the USFS has not tilled them up

Lunch on the way back down

Ramen minus the flavor pack (msg gives me migraines)
 Plus hot sauce, peanut butter, dried peas
salt and dehydrated hamburger.