Melinda and Liz covered over 19 miles on Monday and about 16 miles yesterday.
Yesterday, they crossed Forester pass, the highest spot on the PCT at 13,211 feet. A text from Melinda said travel was "worse on the downhill side due to snow". This makes sense - because they are traveling south to north, the north facing slopes will be the downhill side and that side gets less sun during the day to melt the snow.
She also said they got the tents set up last night before the rain started and that they need some sun today to charge the tracking device (40% battery as of last night) and their phones.
Looking at the radar animation from overnight, it appears that the storm has moved north, so hopefully they will get their sun today. I hope they didn't get too much precipitation over night or they might have fresh snow to deal with today.
They were camped last night at mile 786, about 95 miles from the next resupply at Vermillion Valley Resort.
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