Day 78 Dorothy Lake, 1000 miles

21.1 miles
From the path of the path beyond Thompson Canyon (Mile 984.4, a height 8096)
To follow the fair camp passing the Walker River bridge (Milla 1003.6, UND 8625)
Ascent 3355
Descend 2830

The first rise in the morning was more difficult than I expected. I thought I was only going to be hundreds of feet, but I think it ended more than a thousand. It was definitely not so fun without much water. Once I began to descend, the mosquitoes were fierce. I remember looking aside through the network of my head and seeing a swarm of them.

Later, I met IRA in Grace Meadow. His more close walking approach coincides with mine. We have fun talking about geology and environment and hiking and music. Anger is about my age. The JMT walked last year. This year, he decided to walk from Tuolumne to Tahoe.

Grace Meadow, looking south

When I arrived at Lake Dorothy, I stopped for a snack and also went to swim short to cool off. He felt good. Just after Lake Dorothy was the limit where Yosemite park would finally leave.

Dorothy Lake, the place where I went to swim

I passed the 1000 mile score. I was paying attention at my distance, so I would know how to look for it. I saw something outstanding of a rock in the distance, wondering if it could be a marker. Then I noticed some rocks just outside my left trail that seemed that they could be a marker. But they didn’t look pretty good. Finally I turned around and I saw a great «1000» framed of rocks on the other side of the path.

I received a snack, I rested a little and touched some guitar before moving forward.

The Walker River bridge is damaged and people in Farout are talking about rock jump. But the bridge cover is solid if it is a bit inclined. I wasn’t at all worried about that. I think the rock jump would have been much more dangerous, given the volume and speed of water in the river.

Walker River bridge

Walker River: The bridge looks safer than the rock jump through this

A little beyond the bridge I found a place to establish the camp for the night.

Camp: close enough to listen to the water in the river all night

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