Miles: 903.3 to 923.1 Trail Miles: 19.8 Miles Hiked: 24.8 After four nights and three zeros in Mammoth Lakes we needed to get back on the trail – regardless of whether we wanted to or not. I’d taken Smokebeard to the trailhead the previous day. He and the AT Boys avoided the ‘zero flu.’ Even …
Mile Marker: 903.3 Trail Miles: 0 What can I say? I’d only intended to spend two days in Mammoth. Two zeroes, that’s all. But Mammoth. Beautiful, fun Mammoth. I’ve been coming here for years and its always the same: I never want to leave. My trail family succumbed to it as well. We had planned …
Miles: 884.4 to 903.3 Trail Miles; 18.9 Miles Hiked: 22.4 We were up and over Silver Pass early. The excitement of reaching Mammoth Lakes propelled us forward. We’d have at least 2 days and 3 nights off the trail: hot showers, laundry, real food, restaurants, flushing toilets, beds…..everything we were deprived of on the trail …