2 more passes, some weather and a dead tracker - Greg

Yesterday (Wednesday 6/10) the ladies pushed up and over Glen pass. Even in a very short text to Bodie Melinda managed to fit in some faux swearing. (eg !$&*) Apparently Glen deserves it's reputation as a tough crossing. They spent the night at 797.35, just before the long climb to Pinchot pass.

No word on the weather from L & M, but reading some of the other trail blogs it sounds like there has been some, to say the least. (Hail storms, thunder and lightning) It must have been overcast because Melinda couldn't get enough sunlight on the solar panel to keep ahead of the battery usage on the tracker, so it went dead last night and wasn't working all day today. No blue dots to track! I didn't know how much I was relying on those blue dots for reassurance until they were gone. These other bloggers were posting from Lone Pine or Independence on zero days - glad to be out of the storm. But it sounds like our own Subway and Sugar High were right there in the heart of it.

But apparently all is well - Melinda got enough of a charge on the tracker to send a message that they pushed over Pinchot pass today and are bedding down at 811.75. She thinks they might have enough juice for tracking tomorrow.

Tomorrow it's about 5 miles to Mather pass at 12,100 feet followed by a 10 mile descent to the middle fork of Kings river before starting the biggest climb in section H, 3500 feet in 10 miles to the top of Muir Pass.

Oh - for those who have been asking, it's Subway (Melinda) on the left and Sugar High (Liz) on the right in the picture on the home page of the blog. And yes, I know that's backwards from the blog title. And I understand that they should just swap names to make it easy on everybody. But I doubt they will.