Day 5-Shadow Creek to Red's Meadow

Matt had insomnia again last night and Shellie slept fitfully. We still managed to wake up before the Boy scouts and get out of there before they made breakfast. There were very few people on the trail today, probably because it is a Monday. There was this one stretch that got so boring that Shellie pulled out her iPod and we both sang along. Shellie wore her Chaco's all day and can barely walk now. We are taking tomorrow off to go down to Mammoth to get some stuff and mail some junk home. We aren't sure if we will make it back on the trail at this point. We met a bunch of nice people in Red's today on the bus and at our lousy cheeseburger dinner:) Devil's Postpile was really cool. We got "lost" on our way to our campground at Red's Meadow. We looked at the map and prayed. When we opened our eyes we saw something bright blue in the trees, it was a tent! The campground was found! 10ish miles-5.5 hours

Day 4-Donahue Pass to Shadow Creek

We did our first pass today. It was a long day. We were able to sleep so we didn't get up until 6:45 am and left at 8:30 am. The first 3.6 miles flew by, so when the nice, flat mileage came and went so slowly-we were frustrated. After going up and down Donahue Pass, we had to do Island Pass, then way down to Thousand Island Lake(where we had a hot, miserable lunch), then up to Emerald Lake, down to Ruby, up out of Ruby, down to very windy Garnet Lake, up and then down Shadow Canyon. Shellie's feet were killing her the whole way. We had a great time in the word and prayer through Shadow Canyon. We ended up making camp with a group of boy scouts from Connecticut, which was very nice. It was a long, but fun day. 11 hrs, 15 miles