It's another easy trail day. After a delicious breakfast of eggs, toast, and potatoes, we took the 930 am ferry back to the trail. Mammoth was only 24 miles away but with the late start plus Silver pass to climb we knew we wouldn't get there today. Silver pass was not hard. It only went to 11000 feet. However, it was a long hike up. We started around 7500 feet and it took most of the day to get up and over. After the pass we had a ridge to climb. There were a lot of deer out this afternoon. They were oblivious to us. There were also a lot of mosquitos who were Not oblivious. I had to put on my mosquito head net. Several weeks ago a bad windstorm went through the Mammoth Lakes area and downed a lot of trees. So there was a lot more scrambling and climbing over or going around these trees. Some of them were huge. I may have mentioned this before but the blowdown got worse the closer to Mammoth we got. Trail crews have been working hard to clear trails. We wanted to get to Purple lake but stopped to camp at Virginia lake instead. We found a great stealth campsite and it was getting late. That Guy and I are going to hike together as far as Tahoe. He is flying home for a family reunion from there. But tomorrow Mammoth! The picture is of Thor and the guys on the top of Silver pass.
We saw a LOT of downed trees up in Yosemite, near the eastern entrance and Tenaya Lake. We drove through there two days ago.
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