Category: pacific crest trail
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From the Crest to the Coast – Day 70 – 73: Bishop to Cape Mear, OR
Miles: 1.5 My panic keeps me up until 3 am, a time of morning I haven’t seen in a really long time, but eventually I get two hours of half-sleep. Then I see Denied walk past my tent, ready at the time we’d agreed upon, and so I get out to tell him the news:…
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Nero in Bishop, Panic on Trail – Day 69: bishop to Onion Valley Trail Head
Date: June 29 PCT miles: no Miles: 1.5 I get up early and ride a loaner bicycle to the grocery store. Well, first I go for a mile in the wrong direction, but I genuinely don’t mind because riding bikes is fun and the weather is perfect. When I get back I have to try…
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A Risk to Others – Day 68: Zero in Bishop
Date: June 28 I wake up and grab breakfast with Rainfly. He pays for my breakfast which is sweet and then we have a nice conversation about the trail. Afterward I go to do laundry and the whole group is there. They’re planning the next section of the trail. “Anything I can do to help?”…
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Kearsarge Pass Day 67: Campsite before Kearsarge to Bishop
Date: June 27 PCT miles: ? Miles: 8ish We get up around 5 and immediately head up steep switchbacks, but they’re dry and so I’m happy to have them. The group waits for me where the snow begins and Co navigates us through trees and sun cups around Bullfrog Lake. At one point I get…
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Forester Pass, aka The Trail Made Me Cry, Part 2 – Day 66: Tyndall Creek Campground to Campsite Before Kearsarge
PCT miles: 774.5 to 787.2 Miles: 12.7* We wake early and are hiking around 4:30. I’m feeling apprehensive but the pass has to be climbed, so onward we go. Last night I told the group I would really like to not be left alone, and they do a good job of waiting for me when…
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Still A Little Shaken – Day 65: Crabtree Meadow Ranger Station to Tyndall Creek Campsite
PCT Miles: 767 to 774.5 + 1 from campsite Miles: 8.5 We get a later start, because we don’t have passes, just creek crossings. We’re trying to get as close to the notorious Forester Pass as we can do we can do it early in the morning while the snow is still hard. I hike…
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Mt Whitney Day, aka The Trail Made Me Cry – Day 64: Crabtree Meadow Ranger Station & Back
PCT miles: 0 Miles: 14ish We gave up on hitting Mt Whitney at sunrise and instead get up at 330 and are hiking by 445. I’m happy for this because I don’t do well when my sleep schedule is messed up. We’re hiking in the dark briefly and then the sun rises, but it doesn’t…
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Staging for Whitney – Day 63: Chicken Spring Lake to Crabtree Meadow Ranger Station Camp
PCT miles: 750.8 to 767.0 + 1 mile to camp Miles: 17.2 I get up early and set out. I tend to get on trail by 6am and the group tends to be more like 7 or 730, but they don’t really take breaks other than lunch and I like to break somewhat frequently, so…
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Into the High Sierra – Day 62: Lone Pine to Chicken Spring Lake
PCT miles: 745.3 to 750.8 + 2ish miles up Trail Pass Miles: 7ish This morning our trail angel makes us breakfast – eggs and bagels and fresh fruit and juices. We eat outside on her patio (we did this last night when she ordered us all Chinese food) and her desert tortoise wanders around entertaining…
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Day 60 + 61: Zeroing in Lone Pine
Time off in Lone Pine was the usual – food, resupply, naps. I got my first real intense wave of hiker hunger and no matter how much I ate my brain wanted more. How to tell when the restaurant is full of hiker trash The road to Bishop after Kearsarge Pass is currently closed –…
colleen stinchcombe 