PCT day 44 – A huge day

Last night was freezing, everything had a layer of frost on so we had a bit of a later start than normal as we let all our stuff dry out.

We had another long, slow climb to get up to 11500ft this morning, I saw Growler near the top having a break - we are really starting to feel the hunger now - and Cool Breeze came by, I moved on before them as I know how much slower than them I am, plus I had to keep stopping to take all these pictures...

After the long ascent came the long descent, losing everything we had gained that morning. I was expecting them both to pass me (Bangarang was way ahead all day) but I got all the way down to the river and waited for them for about half an hour (not so slow after all!). I had my dinner by our first 'major' river crossing which I waded through in my camp shoes, Cool Breeze came along and just hopped over the stones!

We all had our dinner early as we had a second major climb before getting to camp which was steep but it turned out to be not as bad as I was expecting. It was likely that we would get to camp as it was getting dark, we wanted to make the miles so we could climb Mt Whitney tomorrow.