On Saturday we did about 24 miles. Brian left earlier after lunch to try and make Seldon pass in order to catch the ferry to Vermillion Valley resort on Sunday morning. Gnu and myself decided to skip VVR and go straight to Red's Meadow to get into Mammoth.
It was another beautiful day of hiking. The views just jump from all sides, non stop! I understand why many hikers across the world view the John Muir Trail (section of the PCT we are now on) as the best long distance trail in the world.
On Sunday we reached the Bear Ridge trail junction and I realised I wouldn't have enough food to make it to Mammoth. So I left Gnu, with the intent to meet him in Mammoth, and headed to the junction that would take me to the VVR ferry at Edison lake. I got there about 90 minutes too early for the ferry and decided to walk the 4 or so miles into VVR along the lake. I caught up with Brian there and had a few beers and a great shrimp burrito for dinner and peach berry pie for desert! Willin and Duck were also there with Duck's mom, who brought their dogs to them. They plan to hike a section off the trail with the dogs. I also caught up with a few other hikers including Clarke Kent, Lost and Speechless.
Monday Brian and I headed out early. Our plan was to take the Goodale pass trail which cuts back onto the PCT after Silver pass. It was a nice hike but we managed to lose the trail when crossing a creek to early. After bush wacking for about 20 mins we found a trail and walked about 1.5 miles on it while ascending steeply most of the way. It was the wrong trail and we ended up at the upper Graveyard lake! So we had to backtrack and lost about 2 hours. The climb up to Goodale was pretty tough and the day in whole was a hard one but the scenery was great and we still made good mileage. There were quite a few fallen trees on trail.
We are camping at beautiful Purple lake tonight. Tomorrow I head into Mammoth to meet Gnu and hopefully also Rian who is camping there with he's parents. Brian is continuing on to Tuolumne Meadows where we will hopefully catch up with him in a few days.
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