DAY 53: June 19 - Day hikes: TOTAL 939

We slacked 8 miles yesterday and 22 miles today (Thursday, June 19)- mostly on the John Muir trail. The reason for this is that the Muir trail is so available (along the PCT and around the Postpile National Monument and since we have support), we wanted to complete the John Muir Trail as well as the PCT. So we made a point of hiking all the Muir trails in this area. More about John Muir later.

This is a photo of the memorial dedicated to John Muir. Will update later on the dates and coordinates where these were taken.
Keep hiking,
Greybeard

DAY 52: JUN 17- TOTAL 917.5 miles

good hike today with little elevation change into Red's Meadows. We passed through a large burn from 16 years ago. In August 1992 this fire (called the Rainbow Fire because it stared near Rainbow Falls) nearly destroyed Red's Meadows. We crossed so many small streams and snowfields that our shoes were still wet when we got into the Meadows.

Shirley and I plan to stay in a cabin tonight. We went into Mammoth Lakes to eat dinner, update this post and resupply. Plan to day hike for the next two days to get in several miles here at Mammoth Lakes. The John Muir Trail and the PCT are merged at this point.

The group photo shows hikers who hiked into Reds with me. From left to right is Gopher, Rapunzel, Thrust, Slider, Gordon (support person with his van) and NimblewillNomad. The second photo is of me walking across one of the beautiful bridges that span some of the snowmelt streams.
Keep Hiking,
Greybeard