June 25, 2012
Day 61
Miles: 15
Total Miles: 922
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| Devil's Postpile rock pile |
Breakfast at the Red's Meadow Cafe - french toast and eggs! If I blog a lot about food on the trail, please understand that i am ALWAYS hungry. It's not uncommon for me to eat 3,000 calories at a sitting when i am in town. This does little to offset the massive calories I burn hiking 20-30 miles a day. Anytime I can get a real meal is a treat.
I hiked the JMT alternate route after stopping to see the Devil's Postpile - octagonal basalt columns left exposed from glacier activity. This is one of the best examples in the world of these columns, the other being somewhere in Great Britain.
I hiked the JMT alternate section from mile 909 to 922 and then rejoined the PCT at Thousand Island Lake. The Halfmile maps showed a campsite at this lake and I searched desperately for something flat and out of the wind but was ultimately unsuccessful - disappointing after a long day of slogging through some dense forest on the trail. When I have my heart set on a stopping point and it there turns out to be no suitable camping, it is really a let down. I hiked a mile past the lake and found a spot over-looking the lake where the winds were not as severe. Even so, this turned out to be one of the windiest nights I have experienced.
Today was quite lonely walking by myself. I feel I'm in a vacuum of sorts. I hope to meet up with other hikers at Tuolome Meadows.
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