here is a beautiful mountain on the way up to kearsage . . .
i said goodbye for now to hacksaw and made my way up to what was the first of three passes i summited today. this is glen pass from the north side and a pic of another hiker navigating the snow field i had just hiked thru . . .
i made my way down into this valley and had a little snack and a dip in the most beautiful glacier lake . . .
i then made my way up to summit my second pass of the day - pinchot pass. here is a great waterfall i saw on the way up . . .
here is a video from the top of pinchot pass . . .
here is a video from my hike thru the valley over to mather pass . . .
and finally here is a video from the top of mather pass . . .
this next picture is of the snow field coming down from mather pass. the pic does not do it justice as it was by far the most difficult crossing thus far. i did actually glissade down the side of the mountain at one point and attempted to video it, but i hit the stop button early on by mistake. oh well, hopefully more slippin and slidin to come . . .
and finally to end another epic day, i roll into the camp site i picked for the night and i meet someone i hiked with last year on the appalachian trail. diesel is here, but not the kid, in an amazing show of synchronicity. unbelievable! i met him and his son, aka "the kid," who was 14 at the time, in harper's ferry back in april of last year. so cool.
my lesson for today is just another confirmation of surrendering. my mind/ego wondered if i have been pushing my body too hard and it was fearful of the mather pass snow late in the day, but then i end up meeting someone from the appalachian trail because i surrendered to my intuition to push on . . .
34 miles from cs785 to cs819. 819 miles total.
- tribhu (tree-boo)
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