That’s interesting about the warning. I don’t know why it won’t let people see my post. There’s no nudity or profanity or anything. Imgur sucks.
I have videos, but some people don’t like videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P25eX6PDA4&list=PL-9yXoCfg54OPfgNKXN6HMbEH6HbvSQCE
The tldr: My friend got lost on Whitney Creek on the Kern Trail. I waited for her for 2 hours at Whitney Creek but never saw her arrive. Maybe if I had seen her arrive I would have realized she went too far up the side trail to a log crossing. I waited where I could see everyone arrive and everyone come down the log crossing trail. When she didn’t arrive I figured she had found another way down and was ahead of me, so I went on to Junction Meadow and waited another hour. I then realized there were faint arrows in the sand at the junction with Colby Trail and figured maybe that was my friend pointing to where she had gone. So I continued. (Colby Pass and Colby Lake are excellent!)
Then I spent the next 4 days trying to figure out whether she was ahead of me or behind me. I talked to people I saw. Nobody ever saw her. I kept thinking I saw her coming but it was never her.
Eventually I was camped early on the PCT below Forester Pass and met a ranger who called around. It sounded like someone saw her on Tyndall Creek. I continued to stay in my camp because a thunderstorm was coming and maybe she was still behind me. While I napped a dear old friend just happened to come by. Small world!
In the morning I climbed Forrester Pass and there was my friend waiting for me at the top!
We went to Crabtree Lakes on one of our last few days, which were beautiful.
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