Bob left Lone Pine yesterday afternoon and is hiking near Mt. Whitney in a section that is the highest elevation along the entire PCT. He should be at Forester Pass tomorrow which is at 13131 feet - highest point on the trail.

His next food box is at Vermillion Valley Resort which is at mile 891.  He hopes to arrive here on July 22nd and Toulumne Meadows, in Yosemite, on July 26th - mile 957.  At this point he will have actually done the entire trail since he and I have done the trail from Toulumne to Canada. 

The backpack he was going to borrow did not arrive at the post office in Lone Pine so he has gone on with his backpack (armed with needle and thread) which he has repaired.  He also picked up his bear can at Lone Pine, which is required for the next few hundred miles.  The bears in Yosemite have gotten very clever at climbing trees and getting into food that has been hung. We have seen adult bears send their cubs up trees to throw down food that hikers have hung using the balance method - which works everywhere else.
http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/bears.htm