JMT Day 9 – Piute Pass surprise

JMT August 12: Gigantic A Piute Pass

I took him to the Eparos office to send our additional team. At 8 in the morning, I met Simone from Mammoth taxi there, then I rode with her to the camp to pick up Catie and Kim. The trip at the beginning of the path took about an hour. With Simone filling time with stories about local history and her husband: a grass bowling champion, time passed quickly/

A shocking mileage discovery.

We arrived waiting for a five -mile walk. Farout said 17. Sock and panic everywhere. We thought about calling Simone back, but it was too late: the walk was happening, we like it or not. Later we knew that Piute Pass was five miles, but John Muir Trail’s section was 17.

About Piute passes to the Humphreys basin

The first half was beautiful: above and on the pass towards the wide opening of the Humphreys basin. He jumped to a Canadian hiker from the north, we spent a family impressed by the speed of Catie and met a woman walking with her older mother to the basin.

Through remote forests and rocky terrain

Then came the central section: remote forests, quiet enough to imagine a mountain lion or a coyote that goes out at any time to snatch you and nobody would realize. We met an osteopathic doctor, the name of the cinema turtle, which gave adjustments to hikers as their own form of magic of trails. He won his name because he walked slowly along the way. We talked about the problem of Catie heel and how we could solve it, and I wanted Catie to be with us instead of a little ahead. Near the end, an older man warned us that the path would get hard. He was right: Smooth Dirt gave way to the ups and downs that felt directly from Maine.

A very close ending

The last miles were tortuous, of the type in which it seems that the walk will never end. When we arrived at the JMT and Piute bridge, the 17 miles on the map were felt as more than 20. We were delighted to finally detect the camp and Catie. She had dinner and was preparing the store. I dropped my backpack, I sat on a trunk and let the relief cover it. Sitting still had never been so good. I had no idea that this would not be the last time I would feel that way.

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