PCT day 46 - mile 926 to mile 951 (Donohue Pass)

"I wrote down the names of everyone I've lost, been hurt by or haunted by in my life on a piece of paper. After, I folded the paper in half and wrote: "Don't follow me to Canada. You won't make it". I folded it more and shoved it in a corner wall of bus station hut in Mammoth". Lost and Found.

Another day another pass, this time it was turn for Donohue, it wasn't anything new or more difficult than the previous passes but the accumulation of them day after day poses a significant threat to willpower, luckily it all went fine. Also rest of the day was fairly easy, a gentle descent into Yosemite valley.

I've seen a coyote crossing the trail 20 meters in front of me before midday, once it spotted me it started to move away looking back at me, but it wasn't in any particular rush or panic. LVery respectable creature and not that much smaller or different looking than a wolf.

After that I stumbled upon Guy (I already met him few hundred miles before near Tehachapi), Guy is carrying on walking to his home in Lake Tahoe just before mile 1100, so he doesn't have that far to go. He said that he was walking for a couple of days in Sierras with Ravi from India whom I also met and walked with before. Small hiking world.

This section of the trail lead uncharacteristically for Sierras next to roads and parking lots, we've seen a lot of tourists and day hikers throughout the day. Thanks to that signposting and amount of bridges above the streams been significantly higher. I still went the wrong way few times, because to paraphrase Tolkien: most who wander get lost.

A bit of an oddball day, tomorrow the trail goes up again.

Donohue Pass:
Yosemite valley:
Bear boxes galore:
Storm clouds intensify:

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