Davidpatrone - Pacific Crest Trail Journal - 2011

Out across the lake

Breakfast at VVR was great. It's possible that they make the best damn pancakes I've ever sunk my teeth into. The waitress, Olive was trying to act like an West Coast Campground version of Flo at Mel's Diner but it just came off as bitchy. She chilled out a little later but I could tell I'd be able to spend around five minutes around her before I blew up and shut her cranky ass down for good. I can't stand people like that. Luckily Sprinkles was regulating my behavior that morning and the sugary pancakes must have kept my head together.

We convinced Yard Sale and Tails to come with us and we all got out of there on the ferry with the newest captain on the lake, Eric. He was a PCT hiiker who got fried out in the snow. Burned really bad and so he decided to take a big break at VVR and then somehow he got a job there and this morning was his first morning driving the ferry. It was cool. there were 3 rangers on the boats and they had an ancient saw with them to go out and cut out blowdowns. The saw was from 1910 or something like that. I guess they don't make hand saws that big anymore. It was about 8 feet across. They checked our permits and then we got to the other side of the lake and got out on the trail by about 10. We'd be in Mammoth in two days with any luck although we had three bad river crossings coming up. ACtually we were crossing the same river three times: Mono Creek.

More to come, I have to get out of this coffee show they are closing.

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