Chapter Sixteen: Pinchot
*This is a photo companion to my book, Crunch: A Million Snowy Steps Along the Pacific Crest Trail, available on Amazon here.
May 24, 2017
Woods Creek
Crossing the "washed out" Woods Creek suspension bridge, which was in surprisingly good shape for a reportedly demolished bridge...
Those last 100 miles were a tad harder than the others.
Eh. Dry enough.
Amped headed up the Woods Creek drainage in the early morning.
June 2016 - Still a bit of snow below Pinchot (the actual pass is at the far left of this shot)...
May 2017 - A bit more snow below Pinchot.
June 2016 - Looking north to Pinchot Pass.
May 2017 - Looking north to Pinchot Pass.
Amped heading into the suck.
June 2016 - Happy times from the top of Pinchot Pass, looking south.
May 2017 - Less happy times up at Pinchot Pass. There would be an ice axe in my hands if I could control my childish anger...
Snowed-over lakes headed down from Pinchot.
Looking towards the South Fork of the Kings River drainage with Mather Pass in the distance.
Sinking in deep and unpredictably, even in snowshoes.
Amped doing his best not to die getting water... not exactly a problem we ever thought we'd have.
Camp for the night. I slept hard. Like a 1/2 notch up from dead.
My perma-wet feet with some new, weird cracks...