Daily: 14.4
Total: 983.3
So we were the second to last group out of camp this morning (there were 9 other people hiking and camping around us - Boots, Bubbles, Grenade, Shaker, Mowgli, Unload, Quake, Honeybuzz, Noah) and we were the first to every major landmark. It seems everyone had a really hard time with getting lost today. We waited for one hour at a creek crossing, thirty minutes for lunch, another hour for a break and an hour in this canyon and each time one person showed up right when we were about to leave. We were confused, because usually we're the slowest.
Anyway, we did a couple more ups and downs to hop from canyon to canyon. We were hoping to do 17 miles today but the snow was just too much and the creek crossing was impassable. Kerrick Canyon especially - the fords were nothing, but the PCT hugs the north-facing wall of the canyon for 5 miles, which meant solid sidehilling on snow. So discouraging.
Then we got here, where we planned to cook dinner and then push on 2-3 miles. We got across one fork of this creek on a log, but then found another fork which is pretty much impassable. It's wide, fast, and probably 10 feet deep in places. We're camped here, hoping for a cold night so the water level will go down significantly. I don't know what we'll do if it doesn't. Look really far down canyon I guess.
We're trying to do a lot of miles because we're trying to meet Chris's mom and her husband at Sonora Pass. It will be doable, we just might get there a little later than we thought on the 12th.
At least we really did all we could today.
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