Kennedy Meadows North, as per their own saying, has nothing to do with Kennedy Meadows South. Kennedy Meadows North has better infrastructure, food and hiker supplies. Kennedy Meadows North even had Starlink wifi, exclusively for pct hikers. Kennedy Meadows North was also absurdly expensive for the meagre services on offer. It all began quite well …
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I woke up at 5h30 and heard the rain pattering on my tent. Any form of wetness is a good enough excuse, so I went back to bed. At 6 I woke again and packed up. Something instantly felt off. Last night I suddenly realized I was crying without knowing why and it felt like …
Not much to report. I hiked for a while with Andy, we ended up doing 24 miles and 5000 feet of up. Quite a lot for this terrain. Not really feeling it today. Hopefully tomorrow is better. Although a storm is predicted then.
Waking up, I realized we’d pulled it off. Due to the bullshit permit system, it was sort of illegal for us to camp at the main backpacking campground. But no one caught us, so there’s that. IPA got back to us late in the evening after climbing Half Dome, his face aglow from the experience. …
We got to Tuolumne early in the morning, with time for breakfast while we waited for the shuttle into Tuolumne Valley. I had a pint of ice cream and a microwaved burrito to start the day. The breakfast of champions. Sensei appeared all of a sudden, a sleeve of his shirt ripped off. As Mash …
Due to us heading into Yosemite Valley tomorrow and the fact that we were already close to the place, we actually had a short day. Long breaks every couple of miles, only 1500 feet of uphill, this is more of a zero than what we had in Mammoth. I took my commitment to take photos …
We got a slow start back to trail. By the time we got out of the Airbnb, through the 3 shuttles and out of Red’s Meadow, it was 1pm. I briefly saw Jesse and the other Belgians heading into Mammoth, together with Raymond. On one of the shuttles, I heard from Lil Slurp that Guardian’s …
Another exhausting zero. From Red’s Meadow, we took three different shuttles to get to Mammoth. Beetle and Shield (previously Pants, previously Andy, named for his heroic effort to save Hanna during the rock slide on Mathers Pass, when he jumped on top of her to shield her from the falling debris) also got on our …
I feel light! Almost all my food is gone and I’m flying the last miles to Red’s Meadow, our next rest stop. On the way, I found Fitz and we hiked together for a while. Mash set off early in the morning and was racing faster than ever. Fitz and I split and then I …
Long day, I walked most of it on autopilot. We’re all tired and tired of trail food. This long carry weighs hard. Many places we go to are swarming with mosquitoes in numbers I didn’t believe to be possible. When we finally find a place next to fast flowing water that doesn’t have any of …
