Hey there! This is your long awaited and highly requested update that I have been oh so tardy with. SO many pieces of my trail life have been moving and grooving around, as it is in the ever changing times on the trail. I am past the halfway point of the trail mileage wise and am 60% done with my time on the trail (as my body is accustomed to higher mileage days and the terrain flattens out in Northern California/ Oregon, I’ll be able to be a speed goat for a bit!). After all of the miles and experiences I’ve had between, Mammoth feels like a lifetime ago. The trail took me into Yosemite National Park following my trip out of Mammoth, and it was my first time there! I enjoyed the views immensely, but found that I much prefer the back roads of backpacking- it felt like the trails in Yosemite were much more crowded (even if it was just a few more folks in camp sites or on trail), I felt like the quaint solitude of the trail was missed for a bit. But the views were immense- the trail...