Legs and Borders

"Embrace the suck" Hiker's proverb. If yesterday was Squirtle wet, today was Blastoise smash wet mainly due to the rain falling on us all day. Water was coming from beneath and from above, it was like a remake of 'Waterworld' with Kevin Costner (I just realized I never actually seen that movie). There was a lot of elevation gain throughout the first part of the day, path was going up and down like a rollercoaster, one section included walking next to a river on a snow chute for couple of miles, I put the micro spikes on here as it was very steep. It started to rain about 10am just after first big river crossing that had to be walked through, I managed to catch up with Guy at that point and we walked together for the rest of the day. We must have crossed, hopped or walked over or around fifty streams and rivers during the day. Often trail itself was used by the water to find its way downhill and occasional meadows were like walking on a sponge. We arrived at the ca...

"When you can almost taste town, Silver will kick you while your down" Hasset. Today didn't quite work out the way I imagined it, but perhaps it's for the better. First of all ascending Silver Pass was long, wet and energy consuming. It took me ages to get up there and it wasn't much better on the way down. Its probably this whole last week taking its toll on me, but hey tomorrow is town day! It was supposed to be today, but I worked out that coming down there late in the evening wouldn't make much sense, it was Rememberance Day today, so all the accomodation would be taken and I would just lose time trying to work out where to stay. So I pitched my tent few miles away from the trail head and will get to Mammoth tomorrow morning to sort everything out, perhaps even stay for the night. My bear canister is literally empty, other than few grams of powder mash potatoes which I can't even cook because I've ran out of gas, haha. It's a sad sight, I was t...