23.5 miles
From just Donohue Pass (Mile 930, UND 10550)
Two Glen Aulin (Milla 949, student 7947)
Climbing 1753
Descend 4323
Tomorrow at the camp just below Donohue Pass
I felt a little cold last night. I was glad to have a bottle of urine, so I did not have to go out at 3 am I contemplated using socks and thermal at that time, but it was not so cold and wanted to go back to sleep. This morning, there were a couple of places where the shallow puddles had frozen. I guess it really cooled a lot. And I think that my tent combination/sleeping/pad is quite effective, since I was sleeping in a shirt and shorts running.
Frozen puddle on the road
The climb to Donohue Pass was full of great steps. Although he was the first path, with fresh legs, he was exhausting.
The climb on the other side was similar. The steep rock path continued for four miles. I had to be careful with each step. The path fell 2000 feet in those per miles. My legs were definitely tired, even after the path softened.
I stopped to the side of the path, ate a snack and supported my feet for several minutes. My legs felt much better after that and began to have a good time towards Tuolumne Meadows.
A good thing about the steep section was that the views were great, seeing a couple of glaciers and the lake formed from the exit of those glaciers.
Lyell glacier
After five miles, the land finally leveled and the path became soft when he passed through the meadows of the Tuolumne River.
It seemed sizes in the river
Tuolumne Meadows feels a bit like a mockery. The signs began to indicate that it was further than my GPS said it should be. And then that distance went to the crossing of the river. The ranger station was 0.7 m. Then the store and the post office were another 0.6 m. When I arrived at the Post Office, they did not believe they had my refueling box. While I was waiting for a grill hamburger, I checked the store to obtain possible refueling options. I really can’t imagine that a store is less useful for the resupply of backpackers that is. It almost did not have dry foods (the mixture of trails and the granola seemed the exception).
Another couple with whom I was talking quickly offered that they had an extra meal that they did not need for the path John Muir. I didn’t end up needing it, but it was generous to offer.
Later, in the post office, Michael, whose badge identified him as «post teacher,» told me they didn’t have my box. But he had a special hiker box only for situations like this, to help hikers whose boxes had not arrived. He said the store did not have much to replenish, and let me go through the hiker box and get food to cover what I would have in my box.
Michael «post teacher»
We were talking later, and he explained some things that hikers would like to know
1. He is the only person who works in the Tuolumne Post Office, and has about 1000 boxes. It closes for a while every day to order the boxes. Please be patient.
2. Pay attention to the hours. MF 9-5, Saturday 10-1.
3. The official hours say that the PO is closed on Sundays, but Michael enters (his free day) anyway at 11 am to deliver boxes. He realizes how important these boxes are, especially with the Tuolumne camp currently closed.
4. The Po only accepts effective. They do not have internet connectivity to treat other types of payment.
1-800 request+USPS to connect to any post office
TUOLUMN PO 209-372-8236
Valle Po 209-372-4475
With the closed Tuolumne camp, the closest place where I could camp was Glen Aulin, another 6 miles along the path. The path began flat and soft. With the three -hour rest on Tuolumne Meadows, along with the double hamburger with cheese and two ice cream, my legs felt very well again, and I was flying along the path.
Then something happened that drastically slows down my rhythm: the Tuolumne river began to show off. He went from calming and sublimely beautiful to the afternoon sun to rapid, waterfalls and waterfalls that had a beauty that could not resist. The path would move away from the river, but I could not resist the charm of its moving water
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