Got stuck on a washed out section of the High Sierra Trail last summer

Just past Bearpaw Meadow, a whole chunk of the trail was gone from a rock slide. I thought we could scramble around it in maybe 20 minutes. It ended up taking us over three hours to find a safe way across with our full packs. We had to backtrack almost a mile to a creek bed and work our way up. Has anyone else hit a major trail failure that ate up a whole afternoon?

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the_tara2d ago

A flash flood once turned our planned day hike into a two night survival situation.

skyler_mitchell2d ago

Flash floods are scary but they don't usually last two nights.