This is the main section of hiking on the buried Los Angeles aqueduct, starting after crossing the open California aqueduct. In the beginning you can either hike by balancing on the rusty round pipe with rivets sticking about two feet high out of the soil, or walk on the parallel dusty dirt road next to it. After a few miles it turns east and is encased in concrete rather than steel, with a flat concrete top that is easier to walk on than balancing on the round pipe.
After this there are still another 4 miles or so where the LA aqueduct sometime resurfaces under the trail, until the crossing of Cottonwood creek, where the PCT leaves the aqueduct and climbs the next ridge on the other side of this wide desert bottom.

Caro "Bandit"

November 21, 2022

If you hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, the best time to hike this hot, shadeless section is in the late evening or very early morning. Most hikers leave Hikertown around 3 AM to challenge the aqueduct and get to Tylerhorse Canyon, the next reliable natural water source. Beware the cars that might drive very close to you without reducing the speed at all.

🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

March 2, 2019

All the water from the Owens valley is diverted hundreds of miles to the mega city, leaving a desert behind

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Location: Kern County, California, United States

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