{"id":11198,"date":"2026-06-22T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:07:27","slug":"pct-day-71x-kearsarge-lakes-to-onion-valley-trailhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/pct-day-71x-kearsarge-lakes-to-onion-valley-trailhead\/","title":{"rendered":"PCT DAY 71x-72x – Kearsarge Lakes to Onion Valley Trailhead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

*0* miles total hiked on PCT – 5.9 miles from Kearsarge Lakes to Onion Valley Trailhead – 7.71 miles hiked back to PCT the next day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was only a side hike to pickup a resupply package that ended up with me going down to Lone Pine for a Zero Night. \ud83d\ude07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But one nice thing about me going down to Lone Pine was, I got to see the sunset behind the mountains and also the light from the sunrise against Mount Whitney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, it did mean that I had to re-climb that damn Kearsarge Pass to get back to the trail. But better to do it split between two days that going down and up in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably. \ud83d\ude1c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once at the top, I went down to Kearsarge Lakes again, and recombined my equipment, the bear canister and food I left behind, and the items from my resupply package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ufffcThen I hiked back to the PCT junction with the Bullfrog Lake Trail to resume my journey north. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*0* miles total hiked on PCT – 5.9 miles from Kearsarge Lakes to Onion Valley Trailhead – 7.71 miles hiked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PCT DAY 71x - Kearsarge Lakes to Onion Valley Trailhead","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-ive-been","tag-35","tag-pct2026"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_3394.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg6j8i-2UC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}