Lone Pine to Forester Pass
Yes, those are plastic bags on my feet.
When last I left you, storms were brewing over the Sierra. After 10 days of waiting out the weather, and being told the snow in the mountains would continue for two more weeks, we decided to stop waiting and hit the trail.
The next day, wet feet from fording frozen creeks became the norm. Creek levels are always higher at night than in the morning, and we found ourselves crossing a raging Tyndall Creek right before bedtime. We woke up to climb the much-feared Forester Pass, a snow-covered V-notch between two mountains, the highest point on the entire PCT at 13,200 feet. Though we were the first up it that day, we looked down to see nearly 15 people behind us—a veritable expedition up and over. Although we were climbing straight up hard packed snow, admittedly, Forester was much easier and less scary than all the rumors had led us to believe. The snowfields as far as the eye could see did make us feel like we were in Alaska, though.
This is what I’d been dreading for 1000s of miles. Ain’t that bad.
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