Alternate Title: Lakes & Love
This elevation chart is a screenshot from Guthook's TRT Guide App.
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After passing the morning lakes, we had the switchbacks and then traverse to the top of Dicks Pass. We figured it would be time consuming with snow, but it wasn't and there was only about 30mins in and out of snow towards the top. We heard a pair of thru hikers off trail in the snow calling to each other, but didn't meet them. At the top, we knew we'd get service for the first time in 24hrs. We all sat at the top for over an hour eating an early lunch and getting blog things done. Here's Why Not and Rockin' in action with the smartphones.
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While we sat up there, many hikers came by. Most entertaining of them all was Alien March who is a woman with the most boisterous spirit that has hiked the PCT twice and huge chunks the last 8 consecutive years. After our extended break, we headed down to all the lakes on the south side of Dicks Pass.
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Oh man! Just ridiculously wonderful! The sun got much hotter than it's been all trip and I used my umbrella much of the afternoon for protection. Rockin' took to walking through and sitting in the water to cool off, ha!
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I have to show the map of this area to show how the trial weaves between the lakes. In 2011, on day 80 of my thru hike it was sooo confusing with it under snow I can't even tell you where I went. There are many other trails leading in various directions that are now signed with new posts and we still took a wrong turn today and got confused a couple of times!
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We passed Lake Gilmore, Susie Lake, Heather Lake, Lake Le Conte, and Lake Aloha. Just amazing! Rockin' and Why Not couldn't resist a dip in Lake Aloha.
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We hiked a bit more and I wanted to make sure to meet my friend at Echo Lake chalet by 5pm, so I hiked on ahead the last few miles...then something happened that could only happen in the trail community. That is to be continued in part two of this unbelievable day...