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We had a perfect summer out in the woods, and feel that the Sierra Nevadas are the most gorgeous mountains in the world, definitely the prettiest place we've seen in the US. The high Sierras especially! The trail starts at Tehachapi Pass near Bakersfield, and the Mojave desert is just as hot as you'd imagine and full of flowering cacti & Joshua Trees. Four snakes, an animal that looked like a dragon and tons of lizards everywhere.
This is at Guitar Lake, when we at the last moment decided to detour (16 miles) to summit Mt. Whitney, which is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states at 14,560feet!
This picture is on our way up Whitney, as the sun was coming up. We got used to 3 and 4 am start times for special trips like this one and for desert hiking where it was just too hot in the day and we needed to get the bulk of our miles hiked before noon. We were hiking 25 mile days, with 32 being our longest day, although it did take a while for our feet to "break in" to the weight and the mileage. We lightened our packs significantly after the first week.
Lunch spot in Kings Canyon National Park, which was just one of the gorgeous NP's that we got to traverse (Sequoia, Kings Canyon & Yosemite). Below is my favorite picture of the trip:
I guess they were right, we did look pretty clean for long distance hikers. This picture was at Belden Town. This was breakfast and a celebration as at that point, we were done with 700 miles and only had 50 left in the South. We ate 3 meals in a very short span that morning.
I was posing after returning to the trail down south after my two weeks in Texas. We hiked a section from Walker Pass to Kennedy Meadows as we had missed that 50 miles on our way through due to a water filter break. It was DRY and beautiful! We got to hike with 2 gallons of water each and set up a water cache for ourselves with 3 more gallons. The desert sunrises during those days were certainly worth every bit of effort! Stunning!!
The little person in the picture is me. Dave is an amazing photographer! This was another early, sunrise morning to summit Sonora Pass. It felt like being on the moon.
One of hundreds and hundreds of river crossings, this one by Mt. Lyell, the tallest mountain with a gorgeous glacier on it, in Yosemite National Park. Reticent at first, we got really quick at river crossings, as well as changing into and out of our river shoes before and after.
The PCT hugged ridges and so we had what seemed like millions of these breath taking views of snow covered jagged granite mountains with bright blue glacial lakes in the foreground. Sierra means serrated or jagged and Nevadas have to do with nieve (snow) and so translates to mean snowy, jagged mountains. The skies were almost always bright blue, except for one day that it barely rained on us and one day that it hailed so hard that it left marks all over our skin. I could write a thousand more paragraphs and still not be able to adequately describe the mountains' grandeur, the thousand colors of wildflowers that blanketed the valleys, the bird song at sunrise, the silhouette of a Joshua Tree, and the way in which foxtail pine look like mythical creatures, nor the way that every day, at least ten times I would round a corner or summit a pass and take in a view that would sock the air right of me. 755 miles, 2 months, and the best days of my life! More pictures with wildflowers are at the website mentioned above. :)
