As the plan stands now, I'll meet her about 2.5 miles off trail near Trail Pass for resupply in Lone Pine in about three days. From there we're not entirely sure what our strategy is going to be. Hikers are successfully reaching VVR and Tolumne Meadows a few days beyond VVR, but so far the hikers at the lead of the pack have found un-fordable water crossings just after and have had to turn back.
The operating assumption is that Tina will proceed on from Lone Pine to VVR passing the possible exit at Kearsarge Pass (since that'd involve more than a day's hard travel for the out and back from the trail to the road-accessible trail head) while I bike the 350+ miles over to and up the west side of the mountains. Other possibilities include some sort of complex hybrid bike/hike flip-flopping to give the snow a bit of time to melt while (somehow) not running into end-of-season issues with new snow on the northern end of the trail.
We're just going to take it 100,000 steps ;-) at a time, tho, and see again how things look once Tina reaches Lone Pine. It's clear there are no real issues reaching that point at least.
Meanwhile in bike news, I did a 50+ mile shakedown ride yesterday with the newly-machined hub and rebuilt front wheel and everything seems to be working perfectly. I think this issue is finally behind us. Again. ;-)
Thanks again for all your support, David & Tina