The Rock

I did not hear it, but Tobias did. And a few hours later we encountered the guy that has destroyed our trail.

Naturally, the Sierra Nevada is a quite rocky place, and the mountain range that had upfolded billions of years ago is continously eroding.
The high sierra trail often deeply winded into the mountains, sometimes even leading through small tunnels or overhanging rocks. However, the rocks on top of us have been hanging there for thousands and million years. so I did never fear one of them coming down, at the particular day I walk there.

The guy that had destroyed out trail was an impressive 2 meters wide, over 3 meters long and maybe .8 meteres thick on the average. It had losened itself a few meters above and aside the way and must have flipped one time before it crushed away the ground. It had wiped out two complete turns of the trail, the wounds of earth still wet and fresh. We did not really have the guts to pass it the first day, because whatelse will come down once this rock has gone loose?