At about 3 miles into our hike we stopped at a creek to fill up our water bottles and we ran into other hikers. Tracy asked one of them for some 'feminine hygiene products' and a friendship was born. We immediately hit it off with Katie, a photographer from North Carolina. We hiked the rest of the day with her, walking through amazing scenery, and up and over forester pass the highest official point in the PCT (13,200 ft). I nicked named Katie "Walky talky" cos together with Running Commentary (Tracy) the conversation never ceased. It was nice having a new person to walk with.
We stopped for lunch after the pass and noticed the clear blue skies had quickly changed to a forboding grey. We had the sense to put out rain gear on 'just in case', and just as we'll for 10 minutes later we were walking through snow. It was fantastic to see the colors become more vibrant. It was truly enchanting to be walking in the snow through pine trees and creeks as we descended. The snow became rain but eventually stopped.
At mile 788 we left the PCT to take the bullfrog lake trail over Kearsage Pass in order to hitch to Bishop for our next resupply. We camped just after Bullfrog lake as we were all starting to get very cold from our wet day.
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