Day 67 I was off to a somewhat late start today as I still had a couple of things on my in town to do list that I hadn’t done yet. After breakfast at the hotel and getting most of the things done, I had to figure out how to get back to the trail. I wasn’t particularly well positioned to hitch as people would be going in all kind of directions from there and…
Day 66 I don’t know if I have ever properly explained what a “bounce box” is. If I have, then I’ll be repeating myself a bit here. Basically it is just a box with stuff that you keep sending to yourself along the way either as general delivery (where the package is waiting for you at the post office) or to some place offering to hold your package (possibly for a fee). I think it…
Day 65 Today I had two goals: Enjoy the last day in the Sierras and visit an all you can eat buffet in South Lake Tahoe. I told myself to not just rush it and miss the nature to get to town, so I got up a bit early and also noticed a two mile discrepancy between my guide book and my phone app, so that added further time. Despite this, I think the Sierras…
Day 64 Like yesterday it only got up after it was bright enough to not need a headlamp. After breakfast I had my daily dose of deer startling me. First I thought that I saw an animal run behind a fallen tree. I didn’t think much of it. Sometime later two deer suddenly jumped into the camp site and ran across it. After a couple of miles I reached an asphalt road where I had…
Day 63 As I got late to bed late yesterday, I allowed my to sleep a bit longer and only got up and going when I didn’t need a headlamp. Nevertheless, I was still quite sleepy and not in the best mood, though much better than yesterday. As the very first thing of the day, the trail brought us up and across a ridge, starting out with a surprisingly steep ascent. It gave great views…
Day 62 I thought today was going to be boring. I was wrong. Got up particularly early today to compensate for being behind schedule. While having dinner and packing down camp by the light of my headlamp, I suddenly looked up and gasped as I two eyes were starring directly at me from twenty feet away. A split second later, however, I realized it was one out of four deer that had sneaked up on…
Day 61 I quickly and easily got the last step of the way up to Benson Pass. It was just over 10K feet, snow free and didn’t offer anything that special in terms of views in my opinion. After that it was down another valley, up it, down another valley up it, and so on and so forth. When the trail wasn’t busy doing that it went up and down the side of a valley…
Day 60 Had most of my stuff packed so soon after I had had a quick breakfast, I checked out of the hotel. I walked about a mile down to route 120, which is the major route transversing Yosemite from east to west. I had planned to hitch from there and if that didn’t pan out take the one daily bus departure at about nine am. I thought it would be a relatively easy hitch…
Day 59 I’ll be frank with you: nothing epic happened today here in the somewhat touristy and mostly calm Lee Vining. So bear that in mind should you continue reading. Speaking of bearing or rather bears, I also apologize for staying here and not camping in Tuolumne, which apparently is kind of the epicenter of bear activity. That could potentially have led to more interesting posts than this one. When I woke up I was…
Day 58 Probably more than I have ever done before here on trail I just wanted to feel clean again and get back to civilization for a short while. The Vermilion Valley Resort didn’t really cut it with their lack of water, so I hadn’t had a shower since Bishop, which was eight days ago. Between a shower and me were twenty two miles and two passes. I convinced myself to not focus on just…