Month: June 2026

Introduction

This is the last edition, written and copyrighted in 2019. There was a rewrite in process but it never happened. https://www.yogisbooks.com/links has the updates.

It is still the only good guide.

The Appalachian Trail has three good guides, updated every year. The PCT has only this, bought used from random sources.

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This is a review of the book, with comments.

Background and Evolution

Yogi started hiking in 1999 with the AT. From there she started on the PCT in 2001. She made it halfway until an injury forced her off. 2002 she returned and thru-hiked the PCT.

2003 she did the PCT again. 2004 she did the CDT. 2007 the PCT again and then in 2010 the Colorado Trail. Then she kept hiking through 2016. Then she hiked more.

She started writing and helping people in 2003. She had a journal that people kept printing (in 2003 it was known as “Yogi’s Notes).

In 2004 she wrote and published her first guide.

From there through 2019 she kept updating and improving it.

Her bottom line is that you and others can do the PCT. Especially with a little preparation. The book is her effort to give everyone the materials they need to prepare.

Yogi & Co-Writers

She co-wrote this with input from several other thru-hikers.

Yogi—she was 37 when she first hiked the PCT.

Anish—both humble and incredible. The most understated record setting hiker you will meet.

Bink—a hiker I’ve never met. Started hiking when he was 18 and hiked the trail at least 13. times. Has hiked over 50,000 miles.

He has also seen the evolution of the trail.

Hiker Box Special—he hiked only the PCT and hiked it only once when he was 28.

Scrub—hiked part of the AT and then the PCT at age 25.

Resources and Sources

She recommends sources that are excellent—even now. Guthooks is now FarOut. Her advice here is still good.

Logistics

She covers starting dates and directions and gives all the details you need to make trail decisions about when to start and finish.

All you need to know about permits and how to get maps, both for your phone and in print.

I’ve carried paper maps when fires were an issue. Otherwise it has been FarOut all the way.

They cover hiking with a partner, compare the AT and PCT, journaling, electronics and the cost (note that there has been inflation) and other topics.

[this takes you through page 51].

Gear

She has a lot of advice. Checklists and sources. The advice is adequate though a little dated, though none of it is bad advice. The water treatment advice (page 66-67) is still current.

Alcohol stoves are now illegal much of the trail.

Hiker poles are much more useful than some of the contributors think.

Clothing has changed. Sun hoodies now dominate the PCT usually with a ball cap. Socks are really personal. Happy6 fits their sock suggestions. I don’t.

Sunglasses really are essential on the PCT and surplus on the AT.

If you don’t get eaten by bugs or burned by sun, shorts are great. The times I’ve been able to get my legs ready I loved shorts. But usually I need the sun protection of pants.

People hike in snow with shorts.

The footwear advice is spot on. I had years of training barefoot. My feet still fit my dress shoes from my pre hiking days. Others go up a half to a full size. Others = most everyone.

Not sure why the warnings about poison oak and poodle dog bush finish this section, but they are spot on.

Advice for the desert (page 90)

They advise the get up early and hike and siesta during the heat of the day philosophy that I’ve migrated into.

Otherwise this section is pretty solid and clear.

The Sierra

Mileage slows down here on the PCT just like it does in the Whites for the AT.

Snow is a huge variable. Lots of solid advice about snow and the related equipment.

Bear Canisters now are required for the Desolation Wilderness which changes the end point. Otherwise the advice is accurate.

Later (page 243) she lists the Bear boxes available in the Sierra. The list matches up with the current lists I’ve found.

Trail Towns & Resupply

Solid advice about going into towns and resupply as well as hitchhiking in general on trail.

Includes Mail Drop addresses./phone numbers. Call to confirm.

The guide (page 141 to 416)

Every step of the way, with maps and guides.

She does an excellent job for each step of the way, every water source, every town and every landmark and hazard.

Only big update is that you can no longer cross over to Canada and out. You have to hike to the border and back.

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I’ll note that at one time Guthooks did not cover towns, only the trail. Guidebooks were important for town information. The now FarOut covers towns and it covers access routes to and from the trail.

At one time https://www.yogisbooks.com/ had materials for all the local permits, resupply routes, and more. https://www.yogisbooks.com/links now has a lot less.

With the sale of https://www.triplecrownoutfitters.com/ it appears that materials are no longer available as many of the links there don’t work either.

The book is still:

• The best book on the PCT.
• Relevant and useful.

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Afterword.

I got kicked and blocked from one group for talking about this guide.

The “collectors edition” versions I just got in the mail had some interesting content. It was interesting to see the changes over time.

Though the real surprise was in the latest edition from a guy with at least 13 thru-hikes, including two yo-yos (where you hike all the way to a terminus and then back in a single year).

On the one trip he dug up all his cat holes to see how the toilet paper was composting/decomposing. But it was.

What he found was that it was two months before it had started to decompose back to nature.

He also found that unbleached paper composted faster.

Or why I’m replacing all my toilet paper in my gear.

Updates, Craig’s PCT Planner, our permits came in today! Other PCT hiking links.

I accidentally created this as a page instead of a post. But it is still useful and I ran across it planning for the Sierra Section.

https://pctplanner.com/plan.php

It allows me to look at and calculate elevation gains.

The gains can look pretty intimidating but the summaries help.

29.4 mi
4,634 ft EG

14.2 mi/day
2,241 ft/day

That’s not bad.

The plan Craig’s gave me. It doesn’t work with my exact start point but that wasn’t a normal one.

If I were better with the tool I could add zeros and such things.

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1. Mammoth Lakes to Vermillion Valley Resort  (2.1 days)

7-10-26 to 7-12-26

29.4 mi
4,634 ft EG

14.2 mi/day
2,241 ft/day
CA guidebook:H

Adjustments: none

Vermillion Valley Resort resupply exit Exit pt: Ferry Trail
Detour: 1.5mi trail + 4mi ferry ride

Arrive: 7-12-26 (Sun)Layover:    0.0 days     
Depart: 7-12-26 (Sun)

Cumulative distance: 29.4 mi

Notes: 

-none-

2. Vermillion Valley Resort to Muir Trail Ranch  (1.5 days)

7-12-26 to 7-13-26

21.0 mi
3,990 ft EG

13.6 mi/day
2,590 ft/day

Adjustments: none

Muir Trail Ranch resupply exit Exit pt: Muir Trail Ranch (south junction)
Detour: 1.5mi trail

Arrive: 7-13-26 (Mon)Layover:    0.0 days     
Depart: 7-13-26 (Mon)

Cumulative distance: 50.4 mi

Notes: 

-none-

3. Muir Trail Ranch to Bishop  (1.8 days)

7-13-26 to 7-15-26

25.3 mi
4,065 ft EG

14.2 mi/day
2,275 ft/day

Adjustments: none

Bishop resupply exit Exit pt: Bishop Pass Trail to trailhead, road
Detour: 11.8mi trail + 21.8mi road

Arrive: 7-15-26 (Wed)Layover:    0.0 days     
Depart: 7-15-26 (Wed)

Cumulative distance: 75.7 mi

Notes: 

-none-

4. Bishop to Independence  (3.2 days)

7-15-26 to 7-18-26

40.7 mi
9,696 ft EG

12.8 mi/day
3,059 ft/day

Adjustments: none

Independence resupply exit Exit pt: Kearsarge Pass Trail Junction
Detour: 7.3mi trail + 13.0mi road

Arrive: 7-18-26 (Sat)Layover:    0.0 days     
Depart: 7-18-26 (Sat)

Cumulative distance: 116.4 mi

Notes: 

-none-

5. Independence to Lone Pine  (3.1 days)

7-18-26 to 7-21-26

45.4 mi
6,565 ft EG

14.5 mi/day
2,092 ft/day

Adjustments: none

Lone Pine resupply exit Exit pt: Trail Pass Junction
Detour: 1.7mi trail + 18mi road

Arrive: 7-21-26 (Tue)Layover:    0.0 days     
Depart: 7-21-26 (Tue)

Cumulative distance: 161.8 mi

Notes: 

-none-

6. Lone Pine to Kennedy Meadows Store  (2.6 days)

7-21-26 to 7-24-26

42.0 mi
3,032 ft EG

16.0 mi/day
1,158 ft/day

Adjustments: none

Kennedy Meadows Store resupply exit Exit pt: Sherman Pass Road crossing
Detour: .5mi road

Arrive: 7-24-26 (Fri)Layover:    0.0 days     
Depart: 7-24-26 (Fri)

Cumulative distance: 203.8 mi

Notes: 

-none-

7. Kennedy Meadows Store to Highway 178 (Walker Pass)  (3.4 days)

7-24-26 to 7-27-26

50.8 mi
6,195 ft EG

14.9 mi/day
1,821 ft/day

Adjustments: none

Highway 178 (Walker Pass) finish Exit pt: Highway 178 crossing

Arrive: 7-27-26 (Mon)
(finish)

Cumulative distance: 254.6 mi

Notes: 

Mammoth Lakes to Highway 178 (Walker Pass)

Days

17.7 days walking (not counting zeros or days off trail)

14.4 mi/day

2,154 ft/day

Base Distance on trail:

254.6 mi

Total Elevation gain:

38,177 ft

Resupply count:

6

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https://web.archive.org/ —is extremely useful every time you hit a dead link. It can give you the information that was once there.

I thought I’d comment on the gear used for cooking while camping.

We have tried so much, but what we actually use varies a lot depending on what kind of camping we are doing. Here are lists.

Car camping

• Coleman stove.
• Cast iron and Dutch oven. (The only place these things aren’t mentioned as a joke).
• Cooler.
• Plates, cups.

Sections (short expeditions) and short days (hiking ten miles when you are physically up to much more).

• MSR Windburner. (Pot/stove combo).
• Quesadilla pan. (Pure luxury).

“Real” backpacking (anything where we need to cover distance between resupply).

• Stanco Greasepot & Cosy.
• BRS stove.

Silverware varies a lot. Other than long handled titanium spoons it can really vary.

All of those things are right “at the right time” and many are right for younger, stronger hikers where they would not be for us.

That is an important point. Much of what is right is relative to who you are and your tastes.

We own:

• Two different frying pans.
• Multiple pots.
• A Snow Peak, two different GasOne stoves, a Jet Boil, an MRS Windburner (with two pots), titanium and aluminum pots (including two IMUSA cups and the Stanco), an Apex Giant and a BRS for our simple stove collection. And the Coleman style stove (well, two of them).
• Two different filter types (Sawyer and Katadyn, including their authorized clone) and Aqua Tabs.
• Two titanium long spoons, a short titanium spoon and a Sea to Summit Aluminum spoon as well as Light my Fire sporks (spoon one end and fork the other).
• Cold soak jars.

For framing of what we use our cook gear for:

On trail, we quickly got to one hot meal a day with a cold breakfast, a snack, lunch and a second snack. Then a hot dinner. Hot breakfasts just were not worth the effort.

Sometimes if we are tired we have breakfast style food for dinner.

For car camping it is the same unless it is with children/grandchildren, then we do full breakfasts and more.

Park at the Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce Parking or at Lee Vining then take the bus to Mammoth.

Mammoth-> Red‘s Meadow by bus.

https://www.estransit.com/reds-meadow-shuttle

That is the ESTA Shuttle. Required.

Spend the night at Reds Meadow to acclimate to altitude then take the shuttle to Agnew. Campground/PCT at 916. 

916 NOBO /1731 SOBO has 8314 feet of altitude.

Information on the bus and shuttle.

The Shuttle is free from Reds to Agnew.

907 is the Reds Meadow Junction. A place for hamburgers.

902.6 is a tent site. Day one on trail ends

883.6 is a tent site at 9667 feet elevation. Day two ends.

1768.6 is the fork to Vermillion and then about 6.8 to the ranch. Then about 8 miles to 1780 and the redline.

1769.7 is Silver Pass at 10,778 ft.

867.7 has many tent sites at 10,552 feet. Day three ends.

1789.0 at 10,913 is Seldom Pass.

860.7/1795.1 is the Muir Ranch Spur. If you send a bucket you resupply here. https://muirtrailranch.com/complete-resupply-fyi. It has gotten more expensive, but worth it.

Sometimes meals are available, sometimes not.

It is two miles in from the PCT. Then about an equal distance past there is a campsite at the San Joaquin River. Reconnects with the redline at 858.9.

849.5 is a campsite at 9,635 feet near a ranger station. 842 also has campsites at 11,251 feet.

Muir Pass is at 839/1816.1 with elevation of 11,970 feet. There is camping at 834 at 9,317 feet of elevation.

832.2/1823.6 is the Bishop Pass Trail and a campsite. 12 miles to the trailhead.

1837.8 is Mather Pass at 12,094 feet elevation.

804 is Sawmill Pass. 12.5 miles to the trailhead.

1847.4 is Pinchot Pass at 12,127 feet elevation.

1863.5 is Glen Pass at 11,957 feet elevation.

790/1865.5 is Kearsarge Pass Trail 7.6 miles to the trailhead and then hitch to Independence or Bishop. This is the usual route other than Sawmill.

780.7/1875.2 is Forester Pass at 13,120 feet of elevation.

751.4/1905.4 or 746.5 is Cottonwood Pass Trail.

Then Kennedy Meadows at 703.4/1952.4.

Finish at Walker Pass at 653.2/2002.6 Then the bus to Lone Pine. Walker has 5,275 feet of elevation. Not that much higher than Tooele.

This route is bear canister almost all the way but mostly ~4 days between resupply.

https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-resupply-guide-2026/#the-kennedy-meadows-to-vermilion-valley-resort-vvr-pct

Sierra Resupply

• ⛺✉️ Kennedy Meadows General Store* – 60.1%
• Grumpy Bears Retreat* – 21.5%
• Triple Crown Outfitters* – 60% (*these three are at the same location—basically everyone reapplies at one of these three places).
• Lone Pine via Horseshoe Meadow^ – 19.4%
• Independence via Horseshoe Meadow^ – 1.4%
• Bishop via Horseshoe Meadow^ – 6.5%
• Lone Pine via Kearsarge Pass/Onion Valley** – 6.6%
• Independence via Kearsarge Pass/Onion Valley** – 12%
• Bishop via Kearsarge Pass/Onion Valley** – 72.2% (** 90% of hikers use one of these to drop down to Onion Valley).
• Lone Pine via Whitney Portal – 0.4%
• Independence via Whitney Portal – 0.2%
• Bishop via Whitney Portal – 0.7%
• Muir Trail Ranch – 5.2%
• Bishop via Bishop Pass/South Lake – 6.5%
• Bishop via Piute Pass/North Lake – 1.3%
• Vermilion Valley Resort (VVR) – 52.1%
• ⛺ Red’s Meadow – 6.1%
• Mammoth Lakes via Red’s Meadow^* – 14.4%
• Mammoth Lakes via Mammoth Pass^* – 69.5%
• Mammoth Lakes via Agnew Meadows^* – 1.6% (^over 85% resupply at Mammoth Lakes via one of these three routes).
• ⛺ Tuolumne Meadows – 43.8%
• Yosemite Valley – 28.2%
• Lee Vining – 4.1%
• Bridgeport – 3.8%
• Kennedy Meadows North – 79.5%

https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-resupply-guide-2026/ — for context and more.

Also see https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-survey-seven-year-review/#the-pct-resupply

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As for water crossings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfERjZsMq_qZtt5-YHgBKZSvEmn6MUuwiyI2OkMq4SY/htmlview?

912, 910 and 897 all have bridges (as of May 2026).

The VVR to PCT route has bridges.

Last crossing is 761.8 which has log crossings.

Cottonwood Pass to Walker Pass is bridges or negligible crossings.

https://youtu.be/WNA3bZWWmhg?is=BI7709SBzN0BbTEa

That video is from June this year (2026). Low snow has an impact. Looking better for easy July water crossings this year.

The following is from years past in this day.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1884Z94abg/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Review of the Pacific Crest Trail Guide 2026-2027 by Nina S. Winslow

I’m hoping this was written with AI.

I would feel better about the author’s, err, advice, if I could hope for that.

It suggests that a sleeping pad at 1.5 pounds is ultralight. Covers boots, and mentions trail runners. It provides a list of critical boot features.

• Generally you want trail runners, though the “boot brands” suggested are ok they aren’t generally, except for Merrills, on the https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/2026-pct-gear-guide/#shoes list.
• At 13 ounces https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/gear/review/therm-a-rest-neoair-xlite-nxt-review/ is the most common pad on the PCT. 13 ounces is much less than 24 ounces.

It covers sleeping bags but not quilts and suggests the virtues of synthetic insulation though also acknowledging down.

https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/2026-pct-gear-guide/#sleeping-bags-quilts

The author feels that for your backpack adjustable torso length and multiple compartments are key features.

Of course of the 14 backpacks in Halfway Anywhere’s latest survey, only one made their specific recommendations list of 6 (Osprey).

For food storage it among other things suggests the alternatives of using rock crevices or just distance when not using a bear canister.

While it doesn’t suggest FarOut for navigation it does list Guthooks as a trail community resource.

It does suggest a mirror for emergency communication as well as a whistle and possibly a PLB.

To quote: “Water Treatment: filter, purification tablets or boiling capability” (page 33).

It recommends 2-3 gallons of water capacity for the desert sections (page 36).

I could go on but I think I’ve given you a good sample of the flavor of this guide.

I’m so sad another edition of Yogi’s Guide wasn’t out to divert me from buying this. In fact, I was looking for Yogi’s Guide at a good price when I came across this one. Though luckily I found my 2019 copy.

https://www.triplecrownoutfitters.com/uploads/b/2556a720-51d7-11ea-8796-f5da57ab01a8/80de8db0-64b1-11eb-930d-7d34e300260e.pdf

Seems like they have 63 guides under their name?!? Or so I’ve been told.

746.5 NOBO is where Cottonwood Pass starts about two miles up from the trailhead. Or you can go to 751.4 with slightly over three miles to the trailhead access from the redline.

The national park boundary is 755.1 so you start south of that.

https://thetrek.co/pacific-crest-trail/where-do-you-need-a-bear-canister-on-the-pct/ indicates that the bear canister line is 753.9 NOBO.

For the entire trail and canisters: https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-bear-canister-requirements/.

About fifteen miles south of 746.5 & access trail you have dropped to about 9,000 feet and multiple campsites and water. 732.0 is flowing water and five tent sites.

717.6 is the Kern River. Water. Tent sites. 7,833 feet of elevation.

703.4 is Kennedy Meadows South with Grumpy Bears and other services and a shuttle running starting at 10:30 until 7:00 pm from about a mile down the access from the trail.

This is about six thousand feet of elevation.

Then an ascent and drop over a pass. 7,900 is the peak at 688.5.

684 is your next water at a good stop. Water and campsites.

671 has water and 667 has campsites at 5852 feet.

You climb to about 7,300 at 661 and then it is downhill to Walker.

653.2 is Walker Pass with bus service. Hitching is also common from this location.

So, about a hundred miles. Mostly downhillish.

As of 2‐1‐21, Inyo NF permits beginning at Kennedy Meadows are Walk Up Permits. Regarding locations that show as “walk up”, i.e. Trail Pass, Cottonwood Pass, Kennedy Meadows, www.recreation.gov states: “Due to COVID‐19, until further notice there are no traditional walk‐up permits. The same allotment of traditional walk‐up permits (40%) will be posted on www.recreation.gov every Monday for the following Monday through Sunday.”

The Black Rock Ranger Station is in the Kennedy Meadows area, 15 miles from Triple Crown Outfitters. It is a seasonal Ranger Station. When open, Black Rock issues permits to cover from Kennedy Meadows (mile 703.4) to

Cottonwood Pass (mile 750.2).

https://www.triplecrownoutfitters.com/uploads/b/2556a720-51d7-11ea-8796-f5da57ab01a8/80de8db0-64b1-11eb-930d-7d34e300260e.pdf

She has/had the greatest information. Some of the links are dead but this one is still good:

https://www.triplecrownoutfitters.com/uploads/

She sold Triple Crown Outfitters to Grumpy Bear and has done what we’ve done—moved near grandchildren.

Always a wonderful resource.

I’ve discussed planning for enough food when using freeze dried meals. The meals usually are not real meals.

The classic ones are 220 calories or so a serving.

When you are on a long trail needing four thousand calories a day it is important to realize that 220 calories is less than a snickers bar.

Now, recently there have been improvements and some have more calories.

That is still less per serving than a large order of fries.

While this is better, it still falls short.

In planning it becomes important to not rely only on the the serving size from the “meal” for all the meal’s calories—especially if you are out longer than a week.

There is nothing like thinking you have a full meal and then realizing you have had 20% of the calories you needed that “meal” to provide.

[I add the “longer than a week” caveat because on many trips for the first week many backpackers have depressed appetite, which then comes back with a vengeance when they experience “hiker hunger”. ]

The key is to plan meals around calories and grams of protein and not around things labeled as “meals.”

Many backpackers do this by adding butter, oil, or peanut butter to meals for extra calories and then additional food (such as cookies, bagels, candy, chocolate bars and the like) to eat as a side or desert for the extra needed calories to make the meal complete.

BTW, from the PCT Survey:

Favorite Backpacking Meals

1. Ramen 46.7%
2. Peak Refuel Meals 38.9% (I like them).
3. Idahoan Mashed Potatoes 31.8% (I like them, Happy6 doesn’t. You can make them with beef jerky mixed in).
4. Knorr Rice Sides 29.4% (note, I’ve come to prefer the Knorr rice to the Knorr noodles).
5. Ramen Bomb 26.5% (maybe some day I’ll try this).
6. Couscous 25.0%
7. Mountain House 23.6%
8. Annie’s Mac & Cheese 18.2%
9. Backpackers Pantry Meals 18.6%

https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-resupply-guide-2026/

Happy6 and I have hiked a lot of lonely sections. We’ve hiked a lot of trail people aren’t enthusiastic about.

But usually there would eventually be people. This trip it was starting to look like we were not going to have the people.

In the past, even when there weren’t people the trail was full of new things and the tread was great.

For example, I loved the Great Divide Basin on the CDT. It is stark but it was new.

I’ve realized that I’m suddenly not having new experiences. Suddenly it is more of the same but also unpleasant to experience often.

That “unpleasant” includes facing sketchy trail and bears and rerouting.

At the same time I still enjoy getting out. We both still enjoy camping and getting out.

For example, our recent visits to Arches National Park and to Nevada and the Great Basin National Park were both great. We loved that.

I’ve been reflecting on https://pmags.com/backpacking-and-car-camping-two-tools-in-the-timebank-kit. PMags really enjoyed his long trails but now he mostly does shorter exploration.

So it looks like we will be rethinking how and where we will be hiking. Less punishing hiking. More fun exploration.

This all came up as Happy6 said she was tired of the route we were on the CDT. We got to talking about the why.

Some of it is conditioning but we were covering our goal mileage or better every day. Sleep was good. Our conditioning could be better (like it was for the PCT) but it was good enough.

It was lonely, but we’ve done lonely before which got us to talking about what was different. It wasn’t really conditioning or the loneliness or the unpleasant tread but the combination of those things with the lack of something new.

It is definitely something to absorb.

Summary of conditions

Keebler & Crew route from Butte to Ennis. (Note we were halfway from Whitehall to Ennis this morning).

The route is clear all the way to the last pass where there is snow on the last five hundred feet of vertical ascent. You can bypass the snow by walking in parallel through the forest until the trail & switchback to the pass which is clear.

The report south of Ennis is snow on the pass so I can’t vouch for that part of the route.

The route is rough after the snow.

But after that the trail is better.

Blowdowns have all been cleared for the entire route except one brand new one that can be walked around.

Lots of water.

June 15th

There was no place that was really not near the river. However the wind was towards the river so with the sheltering from the tree we woke up without condensation.

Breakfast and water sorted, we started, crossing the bridge.

Things immediately became steep. Much of the route was very rough.

We got a smattering of snow.

We were basically climbing over three thousand feet in about 3-4 miles.

All the way up we followed the tracks of a 4 wheel drive pickup and a motorcycle. Then the motorcycle tracks ended. Then, about 3-4 feet into a snow drift the pickup had pulled out and turned around.

We had only 400 or so feet to climb but it looked like we would have to turn back.

Then Happy6 picked a line through the forest and we walked around the steep, six foot deep and impassable snow. No snow under the trees.

Of course the trail went from OHV track to scree. It was miserable to climb.

Then it hit the switchback and the motorcycle track returned. Maybe the road went hooked up to connected somewhere below.

Then we were on the other side of the mountain and it was nothing but switchbacks for three thousand feet of decent.

Then we met a Lutheran Pastor who decided he needed to take us to Ennis where we bought him lunch.

Next post, realizations and decisions

A complete new essay as I enjoy my cocoa, shower and laundry in Ennis.

Happy6’s summary.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B18hGUjgv/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Recap video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1cdrNFX3XW/?mibextid=wwXIfr.