Today we hiked straight up from 10,000 to roughly 12,600’ at the Shira Cave camp. The trail turned into a slippery scramble in places. Which honestly made it more interesting. The trees got progressively shorter the higher we got and we started to get views. Overall it was a nice hike. I enjoyed myself. Our camp is near their version of timberline. Hopefully we’ll be able to orient ourselves tomorrow if it dawns clear like this morning. We arrived at camp in thick mists and we ate lunch in our dining tent in pouring rain… our timing was excellent It stopped raining at dinner and as I write this in the dark I can watch the many flashes of lightening in the distance.
Well, despite the easy day, I’m tired so I’m calling it a day. My Bluetooth keyboard seems to be suffering from the dampness so I’m writing this with my thumb on my phone, which I’m not used to doing so forgive the typos. Internet is very spotty but I discovered last night that at 3 am I could get cell service. Hopefully history repeats itself so maybe in 6 hours I’ll be able to send this.
And it’s raining again.
Cheers.
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