I'm sitting in an awesome hostel called the Mellow Mountain Hostel in South Lake Tahoe. It was started by two buddies that are only a few years older than me. We've hiked 1094.5 consecutive miles. The sierras are almost over and we will be going back to big mile days. Hopefully averaging 22-28 miles a day. I can't wait to be out of California and into Oregon. My goal is to be done with California by the end of June. Everything has been going pretty well over all nothing too exciting happened in this last section from Mammoth. When we came into Sonora Pass we saw people skiing down the mountain.
When we got to the bottom we talked with the skiers and one guy was a pro who skied for Atomic. He drove us into the town of North Kennedy Meadows (if you saw Wild, this was the Kennedy Meadows they showed). He also made us turkey sandwiches, hung out with us for a few hours, and then drove us back to the trailhead. At Carson Pass the two nice older gentlemen at the visitor center gave us cookies, apples, and carrots. Here's a picture of our group at Carson Pass.
We are starting to see all the people that skipped up ahead of the snow and are now south bounding back to Independance or Lone Pine. We are also seeing a lot more day hikers because the summer is kicking off. It's so exciting to see new people on the trail! I love talking with day hikers and weekenders. The terrain is definitely changing and the trail is gettin really rocky. The Tahoe Rim Trrail follows the PCT for the next couple miles. Luckily we can finally send our bear cans home! The Mosquitos are starting to get bad, I got bit up in northern Yosemite; I must've had 25 on my arm at one time.
That's pretty much all the exciting things I can think of that happened! I'm really ready to up the miles and start cruising again. Thanks for reading and I'll try and post some pictures! -Thunder Thighs
