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Over Dick’s pass and cross Barker pass and get a nice view of Tahoe with a slight breeze to keep the mosquitoes at bay.

Start at Echo lake with lots of wind. Head past Lake Aloha and camp next to Susie lake. Pass 1100 miles.

Lake Tahoe is big. We packed our resupplys for the next 600 miles.

To route 50 and into South Tahoe for 2 nights.

One day from South Tahoe. Past Showers Lake. Slept o. A nice granite chunk.

Getting close to Tahoe now.

More flowers. A nice spot on the top of a saddle with calm winds.

North from Sonora pass. Lots of pretty flowers.

Poor choice of campsite meant a very cool morning… 23F. An awesome ridgewalk to Sonora pass where we resupplied at Kennedy Meadows North. Crazy how fast the landscape changed.

Over Dorthy pass and out of Yosemite NP and into Hoover wilderness. The mountains change dramatically at the pass; on one side is white granite domes and on the other is brown stuff (I’m no geologist).

Hiking up to Falls Creek. Two days of hiking maybe? Lots of mosquitos though.

Over Benson pass with lots of mosquitoes for company.

Lots of granite domes north of Tuolumne. Saw some nice water falls near Glen aulin. Slept on a big granite slab to get away from the mosquitoes. Nice sunset.

Up and over Donahue pass. Mosquitoes are miserable, hard to enjoy the miles between island and Donahue passes. Once we crossed into Yosemite and dropped to the Lyell fork of the Tuolumne river the mosquitoes disappeared and we had a pleasant walk into Tuolumne meadows where we spent the night.

Up past Agnew meadows and the high trail which was surprisingly beautiful. Over to thousand island lake and then up and over island pass. Mosquitoes are getting steadily worse.

Down to Red’s meadows for a resupply and then a few more miles past Devil’s post pile. Past 900 mile mark.

Up and over Silver pass and to lake Virginia. A short day, but we really like this spot.

Up and over Seldon pass past Sallie Keys lake, Heart lake. The down past Marie lake and down to Bear creek with its many fords and some bad mosquitoes. Over Bear ridge to the mono creek bridge where we camped.

A short walk down to Muir trail ranch where we resupplied and spent the night.

Up early over Muir pass. The snowfields extended for 4-5 miles and were deteriorating into soft slush mud crap. Less than 1 mph for many hours. We did not like using the snow bridge that other hikers seemed to use and tried to find better routes. One snow bridge we could not avoid but we let some big dudes stomp across it before we tiptoed over it. After Muir hut/pass we made it down to Evolution lake with the intention of making an early camp, but some thunderclouds forced us down to near the Evolution creek ford near McClure meadows. The mosquitoes are getting worse but not terrible… yet.