Day 46- forester pass

Today I climbed the highest point on the pacific crest trail. It's forester pass at well over 13000 feet. It was a bit dangerous in parts. The pass began about 7 miles into our hike at tindall creek. It was covered in snow there. From that treacherous creek crossing requiring all four of us to hold each other up, we crossed a 7 mile snow field. It was very hard and tiring walking. We lost the trail a few times but Ryan seemed to be very good at reading maps and he got us trough the part escalator and hot cheese did not remember from '09. Once we got to the base of the real steep climbing, we made sure our crampons and microspikes were all tight then scaled the icy face. We got to near the top and hooked up with some switchbacks in the rocks. When we were only a few feet from the top we had to cross a very steep ice bridge. At the top we had hot chocolate to celebrate just like Whitney. On the other side we glissaded down thousands of feet of switchbacks. It was really fun. Then a good five miles of snow walking to our campsite in the beautiful kings canyon to round out our 21 mile day. Tomorrow we head over kearsarge pass to independence and hopefully lone pine for a day or 2.