Category: Trail updates
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Day 85 & 86 – Goodbye snow, hello wildflowers
Monday 22 July 2019 Day: 85 Location: Mile 965.3 Distance travelled: 19 miles / 31 km We enjoyed a spectacular morning following the river down to Tuolomne Falls. The forest was pretty and the falls were spectacular. Thanks to all of the snow melt the falls were gushing with water. The trail climbed throughout the…
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Day 83 & 84 – El Cap, free soloing the nose
Saturday 20 July 2019 Day: 83 Location: Yosemite Rather than hike straight down into the valley we decided to take a scenic route via Glacier Point. We didn’t have proper topo maps but expected the trail to traverse around the outside of the valley to Cascade Point where we would have views of Half Dome,…
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Day 81 & 82 -Yosemite, a side adventure
Thursday 18 July 2019 Day: 81 Location: Yosemite Our alarms sounded at 6.30, we packed up quickly, headed up to the Wilderness Centre and position ourselves in line for a Yosemite Wilderness Permit. While the PCT skirts around the outside of Yosemite it doesn’t go into the valley. Adam and I have heard so much…
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Day 79 & 80 – Bagels, a bear then back into the mountains
Tuesday 16 July 2019 Day: 79 Location: Mile 924.4 Distance travelled: 17.8 miles / 29 km First day back on trail after a couple of days off in Mammoth Lakes and it was a damn good day back. Having missed the last trolley and consequently the last shuttle back up to the trail head yesterday…
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Day 53 & 54 – Sierras, here we come!
Thursday 20 June 2019 Day: 53 Location: Mile 709.5 Distance travelled: 7.3 miles / 12 km I decided to have a sleep in this morning which meant that I would not be leaving early today. Instead I had a relaxing day which was almost another zero (a nero). With all my chores competed yesterday I…
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Day 51 & 52 – Kennedy Meadows, a milestone
Tuesday 18 June 2019 Day: 51 Location: Mile 702.2 Distance travelled: 19.1 miles / 31 km After waking up to a spider on my shoes yesterday, this morning I woke up to a spider web built on the top of my shoe. I wanted to make sure I got up and over the steep climb…
Adam, Leigh and the Trees 
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