9/17/2023
Section: Milepost 907.8 to 907.8
Total Trail Miles: 2029.4 Miles
Distance: 0 Miles
Moving Time: 0:00 Hrs
Elevation Gain: 0 ft
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Oh, and I thought I had slept well yesterday. Damn. I was knocked out last night. I think we slept in ‘till about 8:30-9 this morning. Honestly, it’s tough when we haven’t really been sleeping in this summer. We got up and I made some coffee… and had like 3 bowls of Lucky Charms. The plan was to go out and get breakfast this morning, but I made coffee regardless. Before heading out we set all of our things out to catch some sunlight on the little porch off of our room. It hadn’t really been wet over the last nine days, but still nice to get things dried out.
We got breakfast at The Warming Hut in downtown Mammoth - Keith was up “early” to give us a ride down there. It was a fantastic place with lots of good options and we were dying for some hot breakfast. Afterwards, we went next door to Mammoth Mountaineering supply for resupply on gas, dinners and insoles. Amanda has been pretty jealous of my puffy pants for the last few mornings and took a look at a pair made by Rab but they were north of 200 dollars - unlike the 100 dollar pair of Mountain Hardware’s I've been sporting the last few days. She ultimately passed them up but wasn’t super happy about it.
Afterwards I took some public transit up to Mammoth’s Ranger station while Amanda went off to get some groceries. That’s right - going to finish up legal. I had tried to get the permits figured out last night online but Recreation.gov was being weird so I just decided to do it in person. It took me a few minutes to get over there but only a few more to get the permit. The guy on duty was super helpful and I was in and out in a few minutes. While I waited on a few things, he showed me the pictures of this winter in Mammoth, including the forest service attempting to dig out the 2 story ranger station from snow that had accumulated over the top of the roof. It was really impressive.
On the way back, I stopped at a Burrito Truck that Amy Lu had been raving about when we met up with her in Yosemite. The place was called Rolling Chef 395 and…lawd, it was incredible. I got two burritos and took the bus back to the hotel where Amanda and I devoured them. I followed mine up with a few more bowls of Lucky Charms and heavy whipping cream. We spent the rest of the afternoon in the pool and uploading/downloading a whole lot of material before getting our things organized for the final sprint of California. Next stop - Independence, CA! Mammoth was an amazing place to rest and recharge and I highly recommend spending a whole day there if you can spare it!
