A blog of my hiking and mountaineering. I have hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) and am working on climbing all of the Colorado 14ers.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Day 47- kearsarge pass to lone pine
Woke up in camp with tibetten, busted magic and noodles romanoff. They are a very interesting threesome hiking together. They are attempting to carry 12 days I'd food and go all the way through the sierras. I can honestly say that I enjoy hiking with my group more. We left camp at 7 and began our climb up the hill to the cutoff to kearsarge pass after crossing some frigid creeks. The climb up the hill was tough especially with numb feet from the near freezing water. After we reached the cutoff we walked through some completely snow covered meadows that were pretty icy due to it being early in the morning. It was extremely tough to keep on the trail since it was so snow covered and the footprints were mostly melted. We saw the trail above us and climbed up some scree passed bulldog lake to where the switchbacks over the pass began. It was probably the most beautiful thing I have ever seen with the reflection of the mountains off the lakes and the pine trees surrounding it. There were multiple waterfalls from the snow melt that added to the beauty. Kearsarge was not a tough pass and we crossed it with ease and glisaded some down the other side. As we were coming down to the road we saw gnar and rachiopod for the first time in many days and continued down to onion valley. Sadly hot cheese dislocated his shoulder by falling on snow and may be out for a while. Once we got to the bottom dr Chonzy (Ryan) and escalator reset his shoulder with an android first aid app. Then we took the bus to lone pine and got a hotel for 50 a night and squeezed 4 people in it. The night ended with the spa enjoyment.
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