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We did this and passage 3 as a 3 day backpack. Started at Parker Canyon TH at noon on Friday, hoping to get 4-6 miles in. We actually made 9.5 before we decided to camp at Pauline Canyon for the night. Weather was fantastic! Sun got a tad toasty so it was definitely an umbrella weekend. A few parts were brushy but nothing that impeded progress. Tread was pretty good too. There were 2 deadfalls across the trail and people were creating a new trail around them. 1 was easy to move so I dragged it over the make-shift trail to force hikers back on the main tread. The other was a tad heftier, but still I was able to tug it over top of the make-shift trail. Plenty of water - some tanks had considerable algae, but all would have been filterable. The names of the tanks I'm not sure of, but there were 2 tanks - metal and rubber - that had water south of Pauline. We had plenty and had cached at Canelo Pass TH, so didn't bother with filtering. Ran into 1 backpacker with his dog and a group of 5 thru hikers who planned to finish the trail on Saturday. A lot of the nice, flat areas to camp in were LOADED with cow droppings, so we kept tooling along until we got to Pauline Canyon where we found a nice spot to set up camp. During the night something was snuffling around my friend's tent, but other than that, we had an uneventful night. It dropped into the 30s and we could see out breath the next morning. Gave me a chance to try out my new quilt, and I'm very happy with it!! Headed out shortly after 7 and arrived at Canelo Pass TH and our water around 10. Took a nice break, filled out water containers, drank water until we sloshed and got ready to head on. Some mountain bikers arrived in their cars and were nice enough to take our empty containers for us so that we didn't have to haul them 16 miles! 
Goldilocks