Miles: 957.3 to 975.8 Trail Miles: 18.5 Even without an alarm, I woke up around 0500. I didn’t get on the trail until 0840, so it was a leisurely morning – I cooked a hot breakfast and worked on yesterday’s blog. Scooch emerged from her tent as I was putting my pack on to leave. …
Miles: 942.5 – 957.3 Trail Miles: 14.8 Miles Hiked: 14.8 Today was mine and HH’s last day together until September. I took my time packing up. I wanted to linger and stretch out our remaining time. After a late breakfast at Toomey’s, our favorite restaurant in Mammoth, we drove up to Yosemite. It was a …
Mile Marker: 942.5 Trail Miles: 0 HH flies home in a few days. Rather than than spend our last night together in the Tuolumne Campground, sleeping in a tent, we went back to the condo in Mammoth. It was only a 50-minute drive even though it’d taken me 2 days hiking. While a part of …
Miles: 923.1 to 942.5 Trail Miles: 19.4 Miles Hiked: 20 It was windy and cold last night, 32 deg inside the tent. I’d camped near other hikers, but it was the first time in awhile that I had camped without my trail family. The wind buffeting the tent had made for a restless night, so …