Day 59- picking it up

I decided it was time to pick up my miles. Even with the amazing amount of snow that is still on the trail. I would say in the last week, over 60% of my time is spent on the snow. It really slows me down as well. I got a much later start on the day, not leaving glen aulin until around 8. This is probably due to the overstuffed state I went to bed in and needed the extra break. It was an easy walk for the first 10 miles including an easy ford of return creek. It has gone down a couple feet in just the last week or so rangers said. Then I pushed on and hit tons of snow above matterhorn canyon. So much that I lost the trail and spent an hour finding it. When I did find it I ended up going the wrong way for maybe a quarter of a mile before I saw goodness and Zim walking towards me. After makeshift skiing and sliding down the side of the canyon we somehow got separated. I was unsure if they were in front or behind me so I walked fast for a while then took an extended break to no avail. I kept going on my own. I easily made it over the 10000 foot benson pass, and on the way down I began following some foot prints that lead me to a foursome who figured out they had gone the wrong way. We knew where the trail was, 1000 feet below the granite cliff we were on. Instead of staring as the rest of them were, I just climbed down. It took a while and lots of scheming but I made it safely. At the bottom I saw lafonda and eurotrash whom I had seem in mammoth, and tualumne meadows. They had a gps and from there we found the trail. I soon passed by them and headed for benson lake which required 2 creek crossing. The first was just snow melt and I walked on a log across. The second was piute creek and it was huge. I just walked upstream to before all the tributaries came together and did a combination of wading and log walking to get across the five separate creeks. I set up camp having gone 26 miles with close to half of it in snow. The Mosquitos have slowly gotten terrible and going through a very pretty yosemite meadow I got eaten alive. Tomorrow I should reach mile 1000 if everything goes well!