Pacific Crest Trail - Days 93-94 - Cloud’s Rest and Yosemite Valley

Sawtooth Ridge above Bridgeport and Twin Lakes in the distance. The Matterhorn immortalized in Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums is the tall one on the right. I’ve been up there. It was hard. Really cool to see this ridge from a distance.

Some sort of granite lizard / dragon gargoyle.

A raven photobombed my shot. Perhaps the best view in America.

It looks like a barcode but our public lands aren‘t for sale.

They are ants.

Trail art. I appreciate you, trail builder from a century ago.

You usually don’t see jeans more than a half mile beyond a trailhead. Props, dude.

Rock and roll.

Cloud’s Rest is back behind there somewhere. It’s 5700 vertical feet from Cloud‘s Rest to the Yosemite Valley floor - not exactly a relaxing rest day.

This squirrel was politely eating his dinner off a little rock table.

Antioxidant Trail Mix? 🤔

It’s always good to neutralize those free radicals.

Wait.

You don’t even need to wait for a hurricane to rip through the southeastern seaboard to experience a disaster relief shelter - you can just book a night in Curry Village in Yosemite.

None of this makes sense to me.

We hopped on an 8am bus back up to Tuolumne Meadows.

Climbers are a different breed.

A+ for effort.

Evidence of through hikers.

🫀 😋

Back on the PCT. Look at this luxurious trail!