Daily Miles - 17 Cold night by the water last night Am hiking out for resupply at Bishop Pass as I have never done it and I hear it is beautiful. It is also a straight forward resupply as we dropped off a box there on the way to Cottonwood Pass … [Read more...]

Daily Miles - 24 Another perfect weather day. Up by 6 and walking by 6:30 Went over Pinchot pass before seeing any other hikers. Pretty gradual up Caught up to horse crew that apparently was carrying for a group of tourists from Japan. Hard to … [Read more...]

Daily Miles - 17 8am start today, slept in...even meditated before getting up and going. Knowing where I intend to hammock reined in the miles as I wanted to be in a place that had good trees. Walked with a PCT hiker (from Switzerland) for a … [Read more...]

Daily Miles - 22 6 o'clock start today. Occurred to me that this is the wrong direction to hike for this reason - too many people stop to talk, while some are very interesting, others - not so much. I think I was hoping for a few less people on … [Read more...]

Daily Miles - 16 Left Crabtree Meadows at 7. While it wasn’t terribly cold at Crabtree, the water in my bottle was starting to get slushy as I approached Guitar Lake and the actual climb up to Whitney. Once I was in the shadow of Mt Whitney, I was … [Read more...]

Daily Miles 21 Great first day. SweetPea dropped me off and we walked for a half hour together I was surprised to see 7 hikers on trail during the day. Stopped for 45 minutes to chat with David and Z, two sobo hikers. David had already hiked the … [Read more...]