You can read the first part of this trip on the August 5, 2018
posting
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Day 4 - No rain this morning.
There are human made noises this morning; lots of people packing to leave
their campsites before the noon checkout time.
I am hiking the glacier trail today.
I did the first 2/3 of the trail yesterday when I hiked to the Bristlecone
pines. The glacier is just another mile and a 500’ elevation climb. My camera is the only piece of camera gear coming with me today. I saw what the trail looked like and I know there will be no room for a
tripod on the rocky trail. I was on the
trail by 800. I saw three other people
coming down the trail as I was going up.
Nobody had gone all the way to the glacier; I will be the first
today. Progressing through the scree I have to pay attention to the close-up
underfoot trail as well as the distant trail.
One can easily step on a fist sized rock the wrong way, but one can also
lose track of the trail especially when the only real difference between being
on trail and off is the size of the rocks. 