Dates: September 22 & 23, 2017
Miles: 1016.9 – 1023.2
We woke up at the pack station warm, if not totally dried out yet. Luckily for us, JD’s sister Mandi came to pick us up and take us to a family cabin in the town of Arnold a couple hours away. There we were able to spread out and get everything really dry. Mandi made us a bunch of food for dinner and breakfast the next morning, and gave us a ride back to the trailhead at Sonora Pass. She basically saved our butts. THANK YOU, MANDI!
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The snow had melted in town, but it was still sticking to the trail. We hiked out into it, and all of the warmth that I soaked up at the cabin disappeared.
I was freezing cold and my shoes got soaked through. We tried to dry them out at camp, but we couldn’t get a good fire going, so we all ended up going to bed cold and wet, and a little grumpy.
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