Day 8 – 7/8/18
~12 miles
South Lake trailhead to Big Pete Meadow

We lounged in the hotel until checkout. Walking through Bishop in 90 something degree heat to get right place for hitching, I began to question my morning’s town food choices: leftover pizza, a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia, and most of a bag of hot buffalo wing pretzel pieces.

I stopped at a gas station and bought a Gatorade. Surely that would fix my belly.

We got our hitches easily (a camper van then an RV!) and got on the trail. After just a couple minutes, we sat down in the shade for a few minutes and my sloshy belly felt better.

Just as we got up to Bishop Pass, a thunderstorm came through and we got pelted with rain and sleet for about an hour. The weather cleared up for our very very long descent into LeConte Canyon where we joined the PCT, which we’ll be on for most of tomorrow.