Been quite a long while since I posted a blog entry. While the trail has challenges when it comes to water and food, it is nothing compared to the inability to reliably connect to the internet. First World Problems, I know.

I am currently in Mammoth Lakes, California sharing a condo with nine other hikers for a couple days. We just exited the High Sierras and are only two days away from Tuolumne Meadows (and Yosemite). The past few weeks has been a collection of exhausting 6-7 day trips between resupply points. Tehachapi to Kennedy Meadows to Independence to Mammoth. For that entire time, I probably had cell service for only four days and even then it was not always reliable.

Kennedy Meadows had an internet "cafe", which was really no more than a few poorly working Dell computers in a trailer connected via satellite. It was fine for checking email, but I lost two separate blog entries when the connection was lost or the computer ceased to function.

Independence was a teeny tiny little town, and we hitched to Bishop as soon as we got a Subway sandwich and Amelia's packages from the post office. The Bishop library had computers but they were locked down and were using an ancient version of Internet Explorer that even Gmail did not support. No chance to upgrade, so I abandoned my quest and decided to wait another week.

So, here we are nearly a month later. Still got a bit more of Sierras to go, but Amelia's parents are meeting us at Tuolumne Meadows and my computer will be there. Photos! Videos! Blog Entries! But only if we find good wi-fi. Here's hoping.