400!

Last night was one of our chillier nights and woke up this morning to more snow. Oh joy :).  It is hard to get out of my warm bag in the morning, but once I do...its full steam ahead. Only one way to get warm and that's to get moving. We had a few miles of down before we came to Baden Powells annoying little brother, Mount Williamson. Not as tall but after yesterday's challenge, it kicked our butts.   But when we did get up it, it was worth the climb.

Came across some cool desert plants today...

After a few more miles we came to this sign and had to do a few miles of road walking to bypass this section. 

The good news (for us anyway) was that there had been a landslide, so part of Highway 2 was closed to thru traffic. Otherwise it could have been a little dangerous. Check out this tree with the exposed roots hanging precariously over the road. 

It's interesting on this trail... There is a lot of people skipping a lot of trail. For example if there is a closure for a few miles, instead of doing the reroute, they just hitch in to the next town. It's pretty rampant. We are kind of in a bubble right now of like-minded hikers. Everyone is doing their best to cover all the open miles of the PCT or hike the reroute miles. 

But the big news of the day is.....today we passed 

400 miles. Woohoo!! We did some good long miles today and hope to do a long day tomorrow as well. 

Camping tonight at a few thousand feet lower than last night so hopefully no snow!