{"id":657,"date":"2016-06-11T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:52:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:52:49","slug":"pct-day-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"PCT: Day 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>June 9th, 2016\n

Miles Hiked: 9<\/p>\n

Total Miles:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Start Location: Crabtree Meadow Ranger Station<\/p>\n

End Location: Mile 775<\/p>\n

End Location GPS: 36.64268, -118.38781<\/p>\n

I closed my eyes at 9 PM last night and did not open them until 5:30. It was the best night\u2019s sleep I\u2019ve had since I started this trip and I think I needed it badly. We decided to do a short day and sleep in more. Yesterday\u2019s hike did a number on us and it felt good to get a few more hours of shut eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the first time since I can remember we didn\u2019t actually get hiking until almost 9 AM. Normally we are hiking by 5:30 or 6. It felt good, like I was on vacation, and not waking up to the sound of the alarm was really nice.<\/p>\n

The hike today was beautiful, yet again. Towering scraggly mountain peaks lay out before us like a buffet for our eyes. The snow on the very tallest spires looked like someone had accidentally spilled half thawed vanilla ice cream all over them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marmots are by far the most abundant critter out here. They kind of look like what the offspring of a cat and hamster might look like after a one night stand that started with kareokee and bull riding. They are the most adorable things I\u2019ve ever seen, and they are just everywhere, their light brown body\u2019s lollygagging over rocks and through meadows without a care in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tonight we are camped by a roaring creek. All the water and streams are swollen with the quickly melting snow. Many of these we crossed today by means of fording them, which means we had to get wet going across. Some streams are as deep as my thighs. The water is so cold, too, like how the Antarctic Ocean might feel if one took a dip near midnight.<\/p>\n

Tommorrow we will go up and over Forester pass, the highest point on the PCT, and then proceed out of the mountains through Kearsarge pass to go to town and resupply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Quiet Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 9th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 9 Total Miles:\u00a0 Start Location: Crabtree Meadow Ranger Station End Location: Mile 775 End Location GPS: 36.64268, -118.38781 I closed my eyes at 9 PM last night and did not open them until 5:30. It was the best night\u2019s sleep I\u2019ve had since I started this trip and I think 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