Leaving Upper Rae Lakes today we met 2 thru hikers breaking camp: Voyager, 55ish and Galahad (25ish)--both guys. We will likely not see them again as they both started about 2 weeks after us.
We ran into Hiker Jan not too far down the trail and the 3 of us hiked together for a while. We had one challenging ford--and got pummeled with mosquito's looking for the easiest way across. Jan had some deet handy and though we both prefered not using--we sprayed it on liberally.
We all took a break together at a cool suspension bridge. I took a picture of Jan in the same spot she was photographed 5 years ago when she hiked the John Muir Trail. (The JMT and PCT overlap here.)
The 3 of us leap frogged for a while--until D and I got ahead while crossing Pinchot Pass. We had no trouble on the way up or down the pass. When we got to the top of the pass a marmot was perched on a rock waiting for us--as if standing sentinal. We sat down to have a snack and when we turned around 4 marmots were gathered around our packs and Dwight's food bag which was laying on the ground next to is pack. We shooed them away and they hadn't seemed to have gotten into anything.
This is the first day we drank water from streams unfiltered and untreated. Tto this point we have filtered al ater with our pUR Hiker water pump. But there are seasonal streams everywhere--with the sun quiokly melting the remaining snow--so we're thinking everything above 10,000 ft should be ok? I hope we're not making a bad decicion here because I sent our medicine for "the G" (Giardia) back with my Golite pack and 30 degree sleeping bags when we left Kennedy meadows.
We hiked about 20-21 miles today.
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