Day 48

Bishop Pass Trailhead to Piute Pass Trailhead + 3.3 miles on Piute Pass Trail

PCT Miles: 0

Total Miles: 832.2 (1331.5km)

We had scheduled our ride back to the trailhead at 7am. I had all my stuff packed so I had time to make coffee and eat a breakfast burrito 🌯 that I ordered yesterday. Good start of the day!

At 8am we (me, Tangent, Bullfrog and Geezer) started our road walk (around 12 miles) from the trailhead that we got off the PCT and the next trailhead that will bring us back to the PCT and skip the part with the broken bridge. Since we knew that we wouldn’t advance much on the trail (we will hike the Piute Pass tomorrow morning), we took it easy. The weather was good for a road walk (a bit cloudy). We were stopped by Outside Jay, a trail angel, and he offered us donuts 🍩. We got two each 😋. After that, around lunch time, we walked a bit out of the way from our path to have coffee and pie at a small cafe. For that, we slackpacked: we left our backpacks on a big bear box and went to the cafe backpackless. We stayed there for about two hours, grabbed our packs and then, finally, we started hiking on the trail again!

We went up for 3.3 miles on the Piute Pass trail and found a nice place to camp for the night. The whole trail is about 17 miles long, so we should be back to the PCT tomorrow 🙃!