It’s done! We have officially tied the knot. After a year and a half of planning, rings are on the fingers and it all went off without a hitch.

This left us with only one last thing to do: take advantage of our employers’ understanding of our major life event and decompress for a couple weeks in the High Sierra. Putting in just outside of Bridgeport, CA, we headed south into Yosemite National Park via Steve Roper’s Sierra High Route (with a few deviations), knocking out solid miles on talus, tagging a few summits, fishing beautiful bodies of water as huge granite faces towered above, finding ourselves in awe of the geologic changes as we traveled into the Ritter Range, and finally ending in Mammoth and Devil’s Post Pile National Monument. We’ve estimated our route covered around 90 miles (approximately 80% of which were off-trail), and that we traveled around 120 miles with 78,000 feet of vert (both gain and loss). We were very fortunate to have mostly great weather and only one night of bear activity in camp. Great to be back in the Sierra, land of the boonie hat, crusty old timers, and locals who put in big days because they can but keep it to themselves and then greet you with a pleasant smile and encouraging word when you cross paths at Mammoth Mountaineering.

Great to get our butts kicked, recharge the batteries, and motivate for our next chapter in life. Thanks to everyone who helped us get through wedding planning and put up with our griping and moaning about wedding things! We are so fortunate to have such wonderful friends and families. Hope you enjoy the photos!

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<3, D&D