If you closed your eyes and imagined what the sky is like, for me they would be clean glass lakes, backed by magnificent snowy mountains. Blue -green currents fed by furious and beautiful meadows covered with flowers with deer grazing in them. That is the Sierra del PCT section. But my friends are not free. To experience this sky, you will first go through a hell!
Zero in bishop
Great zero in Bishop, had everything a hiker needs. I found a good gear store and replaced my mattress with leaks. He ended up staying in the California shelter. A great place. Many of the injured were there, looked like a war hospital, everyone walked with ice bags on their legs. It had a common fresh area with a lot of guitars and a piano. I met a guy called Rouge that we played, so we organized a good concert for all. We sound quite well if I should say it myself. Then we went to bowling and then to a small bar later. We entered and looked like a small field bar. I was a little nervous how things were going to go with the locals. I mean we had an excessive German man with painted nails, which could go wrong. But everyone got along and we had a good time.
Starting the passes
The crew with which he had been walking decided to make a double zero. It sounded so well, but I just left 30 zero. So I said goodbye and left the next day. First stop Glen Pass. A Lady of Taiwan (Mei) asked if he could accumulate with me the next day, since he did not want to do it alone, so we made plans to leave at 5:30 am was quite without incident. After crossing the pass, we had to cross some incomplete snowfields. When we arrived under the snow line, it was beautiful to walk the rest the day. Many lakes and waterfalls. I could not resist, I had to jump in one of the lakes.
Glen pass
In the back of Glen Pass
The temptation was very great, I had to jump
We camp about 7 miles from Pinchot Pass and prepare for the summit of the early pass the next morning. It was a long rise, but we already exceeded the base of the next pass, Math’s pass. My plan was to camp at the base and summit the next day when the snow was hard. Mathers Pass has a reputation as one of the most frightening passes due to the steep slopes exposed and roca increases. We arrived at the Mathers base around 2:00 in the afternoon. I was ready to launch the camp, but Mei said it too early and she was continuing. I knew the snow would be soft and it would not be intelligent to go then. But a fellow soldier entered alone. Ok Dang it, I guess it was. I am quite sure that there have been many praise that were something like this: «I knew it was not safe, but I couldn’t let a soldier entered alone, it is the guy who was.» Anyway, we did it and was right, the snow was soft and complicated, but we did it, I did not become a «was» as in «a guy that was». It was a great day, we made two passes, which is a lot of escalation.
Pischot pass
Muir Pass and mosquitoes are coming out
The next day, we walk all day and approach as close to Muir Pass before sending it. I crossed some beautiful meadows and furious waterfalls. Mosquitoes have woken up and have been quite bad for low and liars. I discovered this in the difficult way. I had to stop for a cat hole call, or as some on the path call «observing.» In a very vulnerable part of the process, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on me. I am sure that if someone was looking at me from a distant, they would have thought that I was under some kind of digestive anguish while I was swinging and slapped me when they attacked my exposed assets. I know that my wife is putting my eyes on the white reading, but I have given my reader the ugly truth of life along the way. It is not pretty.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. We made the long rise of Muir Pass through quite large snowfields and walking on some ice bridges. In the upper part there is a shelter that was pleasant and warm inside, so a group of us had snacks inside. There is a book inside where you are supposed to confess something. It was an interesting reading. There are some naughty people who walk along the path! My confession was quite lame. The day before I stopped for lunch in a beautiful waterfall outside the path. I was quite stinky, so I decided to make a quick and skinny fall and clean. The water was very cold, but for 50 seconds I probably had the most beautiful bathtub in the world. That was my great confession.
Nero in Vermillion Valley Resort
On the back of Muir Pass, walking to Selden Pass was simply beautiful. A lot of waterfall and streams that had to be crossed. Some could jump through a tight rope walking a trunk, others that only had to cross. The day after the Selden pass I arrived at Vermilion Valley Resort. You have to take a ferry in boat to get there. It is a small «resort» (really just a lot of cabins and tent sites) in the middle of nowhere, but it had showers, laundry and food. According to my luck, they ran out of lunch food, but I got a hungry for dinner. In addition, Per My Luck Power was out for breakfast the next morning, he had to wait an hour in the row while they started and then they had to hurry at breakfast to catch the ferry. Everything is fed by the generator. One would think they would have a backup, but in all the places in the forests here it is directed by the seat of the pants so that what will happen never know. You are at the mercy of the circumstances. Another fun thing that happened was that I shared a dryer with someone and somehow in the transition of the clothes my shorts fell and I could not find them. I spent about 2 hours looking for them. Just when I was about to give up, I noticed a girl walking with what looked like my shorts. I said «It seems that you are wearing my shorts!» Come discover that he picked them up and thought they were loan fabrics. Anyway, that was 2 hours of my Nero Day for which I stressed me. Then I lost my reading glasses, I finally found them on the floor. I spend more than my time trying to monitor my things. It is very frustrating and sometimes drives me crazy. How difficult is it to track things in a backpack? It would surprise you.
Next mammoth lake stop
I returned to the ferry the next morning to make my Mammoth lake. I attracted Silver Pass, who was really cold for a good change and headed towards the detour to the Mammoth lake for a zero. Somehow I confused myself on the right turn and ended up 4 miles outside my path. And, of course, when I arrived in the city, the city is having power cuts that affect my ability to reduce things affecting the time that I should be relaxing. I think I am Jinxed.
In summary, this has been a very challenging section, it is perhaps the most challenging section of the PCT. But it has also been one of the most beautiful places I’ve been. 900 full miles, heading north to finish the mountains.
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