On Thursday morning I took the shuttle back up to the trail head and found Rian and his dad there. I was glad to see he didn't leave the day before and that we could hike out together. His dad joined us for a few miles before saying goodbye and turning back.
We hiked the few miles to Red's Meadow where we had a meal and some beers. We were dissapointed to see the hot springs were all locked up as the resort was getting ready to open for the public. We hiked on past Devil's Postpile and did only a few miles before camping.
On Friday we hiked up and camped on Donohue pass. The mosquitoes were out in full force again through this section. We saw a lot of south bound JMT hikers. Rian picked up a cool cowboy duster that he sported around in and decided to carry it out with him.
In Saturday we descended into the beautiful meadows before Tuolomne and took to breaks to jump into the creek. Rian's mom had hiked up a few miles to meet us. We hiked out to Tuolomne Meadows and I drove out with them to a nice camp site just outside the park where we stayed the night.
We had a barbeque that night and met a friendly local and fellow camper called Jim who ended up chatting the night away with us while bringing us food and drink as well as playing some songs on his custom Martin guitar. He said he used to play and write songs with Hoyt Axton.
Dit lyk lekker.
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