The Pacific Crest Trail will ruin you in the best possible way. ~Carl Miller
Ward Creek to North of Tahoe/Yosemite Junction – 21.4 plus climb of Twin Peaks
Man oh man last night was electric.
This morning we packed up our wet gear and headed out to climb Twin Peaks. The route up is right off the TRT and well worth the climb with a 360 degree stellar view from the top.
Today the TRT merges with the PCT. All of us were excited to hopefully see some PCT hikers heading north. We ended up seeing 4 thrus and talking to them about their journeys and hiking the Sierras with the recent snow storms.
In 2010, I hiked this section of the PCT solo. It was interesting and very entertaining to reflect back as I hiked today.
Desolation Wilderness has quite a bit of messy forests and many downed trees, but we were able to find open campsites tonight.
An amazing sunset was our grand award at the end of a very fine day. 
Did you bring your trail magic? 😉 -GoalTech
Ah man we didn’t, BUT Wired kept your to tradition and stopped with every hiker, took their pic, and wrote the trail names. You guys are machines.
Nice! We are rather obsessive about our details! 🙂
the old man tree looks like Gandalf the wizard from LOTR.
Good call!!!!! So true.
Awesome day! or as you said, a very fine day. Absolutely lovely photos.
Go!Rockin!Go!
These are wonderful photos. Thank you for letting me “hike thru” with you.
Alexis, That warms my heart and gives me motivation to keep writing from the tent.
I agree, great photo. “Blue sky’s from now on.”
Until the rain came again. The weather on this trip swung like no other. A true testimony for packing for any weather. One day swimming, freezing cold the next.
The Desolation Wilderness photo near the end is worth becoming an acrylic or oil painting!
It was a pretty sweet sunset! I have thought about making some of my photos into canvas. You have given me inspiration.