Miles: 1.5 + 7.5 Bullfrog Trail/Kearsarge + 5.5 road walk

Total Trail Miles: 789.7 

Ascent/Descent: 2284/2607 ft 

Start Time: 03:00 

End Time: 11:20 

Temperature: 29°C (84°F)

I didnt sleep as well last night, for some reason it took me ages to fall asleep but I was warm once I did. So I woke a little tired and it took my about 30 mins of walking to feel properly awake and then the prospect of town filled me with energy. It was straight up in the morning to navigate the final 1.5 miles to the turnoff for Bullfrog Trail over Kearsarge Pass. We then hiked around Bullfrog Lake and up to the Pass. It was another breathtakingly beautiful section, with mountains of jagged rocks surrounding us. The hike up to the Pass was lots of up but a breeze compared to Forester, we felt safe in our crampons just using our trekking poles instead of the ice ace as it wasn't exposed. We timed it well again getting up to the top to see the sun rising over the mountains, we ate breakfast up too before starting the long descent back down into onion valley. The snow started to get slushy pretty quickly as w/e got down to lower elevation and the Sun rose more. Soon I swapped out to trail runners for the final section. E arrived down at the car park at the base of the trail before  9:30am and took a quick breather before setting off on the road walk to independence. The top of this road was closed due to damage from the snow but the closure stopped about 3 miles in so we were all secretly hoping for a hitch. Luckily for us a guy was parked up on the side of the road, said hello and after a few minutes of chatting offered us a lift down to Independence. We were soo happy as this ment we would make the 12 bus to Bishop - threading the needle! We found a motel once on the bus and the driver kindly dropped us off right outside. Me, Shortcut, Beer Slide and Buddy all shared a room with 2 doubles and Yeehaw decided he wanted his own so got one at the hotel opposite. We headed straight for food, finding a pizza place and getting a juice from a juice bar on the way back. Then it was laundry, showers and bed. I was fast asleep by 7pm