End: Just before Dollar Lake
Daily: 11.5 (6.5 on the PCT)
Total: 795.5
Back out on the trail, we decided we should have taken another day in town. We're tired and my knee still hurts. Dad told me that I probably have some roughed up cartilage, so I should make sure I'm not too hard on it (hah!), take glucosamine and rest if it hurts bad. I should have rested it more. We probably will spend extra time in Mammoth.
Anyway, we did 2 passes today, Kearsarge (for the 2nd time to get back to the PCT) and Glen Pass. Glen was gorgeous but tough. There were ice-blue lakes below it (in my head they taste like that blue flavor of Gatorade Ice - I think it's called Glacier Ice. They really don't), and tons of lakes on the other side. We had to use our ice axes because part of the switchbacks are covered in snow, so we went straight up a snow finger. This trip is turning out to be way more technical that we expected.
Today took longer than we thought it would too. So we didn't get as far as we wanted to. I was so tired by the time we got to camp. I sick of slipping on snow.
Oh, in Bishop, we bought a book - Look and the Birdie, by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a book of short stories published posthumously. We've read one so far, and it was good so I'm excited.
Sleep. Over Pinchot Pass tomorrow.
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