On this day last year I rose early and checked out of my hotel in downtown San Francisco. I took the subway to the Oakland Amtrak station, got a train to Sacramento and connected with a coach to South Lake Tahoe. From the outskirts of town I hiked a steep backroad up to Echo Summit where I intersected with the Pacific Crest Trail to begin a 10 day trek round the Meiss Meadows with a brief excursion into the Desolation Wilderness. [subject of numerous entries in August 2019]
 What a difference a year makes! It wasn't so long ago that I was looking at maps contemplating where I would go this year; probably it would have been another stretch of the PCT to the north of Lake Tahoe. Oh well, it will still be there when this kind of trip becomes possible again.