Pacific Crest Trail

June 21st, 2016 Zero Day in Mammoth Lakes Laundry. Grocery shopping. McDonalds. Library. Home Cooked Pasta. What more could you want?

June 20th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 17 Start Location: Mile 890 End Location: Reds Meadow Mile 907 End Location GPS: 37.61270, -119.07978 Easy day going mostly downhill to Reds Meadow, a small general store and restaurant where you can also pick up a shuttle to Mammoth Lakes. There were a lot of day tourists milling about

June 19th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 13 Start Location: Vermillion Valley Resort End Location: Mile 890 End Location GPS: 37.50134, -118.92419 We caught the “ferry” out of VVR, a small motor boat that carries 5 hikers across the mirror like surface of Lake Edison. We got started hiking around 9:30 and the goal for the day

June 18th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 19 Start Location: Mile 864 End Location: Vermillion Valley Resort End Location GPS: 37.37646, -119.01302 We were up again before sunrise to get an early start on our way to Vermillion Valley Resort. We opted to take the longer alternate instead of the ferry because we were afraid we wouldn’t

June 17th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 19 Start Locaton: Mile 845 End Location: Mile 864 End Location GPS: 37.27068, -118.87630 Today was the easiest day in a long time. We followed the valley all the way down to less than 9000 feet, an elevation we have not seen for some time. We followed some beautiful rivers

June 16th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 20 Start Location: Mile 825 End Location: Mile 845 End Location GPS: 37.17716, -118.70583 Today was much better on the nerves. We went up and over Muir Pass and did not feel like we were going to die during any part of it. It was actually a lot of fun

June 15th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 14 Start Location: Campsite Mile 811 End Location: Campsite Mile 825 End Location GPS: 37.05299, -118.54217 Today was downright scary. Mather pass was the worst of the passes so far for us. Ascending there is an almost vertical section  near the top which is the only way through at this

June 14th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 15 Start Location: Mile 796 End Location: Mile 811 End Location GPS: 36.96839, -118.44097 Tough day. We woke up to freezing condensation all over our tent and wet sleeping bags. My hands had pins and needles after rolling the tent to put it into its stuff sack.  We started our

June 13th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 14.3 Start Location: Onion Valley End Location: Dollar Lake Mile 796 End Location GPS: 36.83457, -118.40768 Today was tough. Glen Pass scared us and kicked out butt. The north facing bowl when you get over the top is just covered in snow. I don’t even want to use the word

June 12th, 2016 Zero Day in Independence It’s nice waking up in a bed. It’s easy to forget this simple pleasure when you sleep in one all the time, but when you don’t, you really appreciate how great of an invention the bed actually is.  I walked outside the motel room and saw bright white