It was quite a wet day... We left our resupply & near-o stop of Dunsmuir & were back on the trail by 0900, climbing all the way from 2000 ft up to 6800. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't the best we've had so far and although the first 4 miles or so weren't too bad, as we got higher, we entered the low clouds that were rumbling. Not long after that, the fine mist became a steady rain so lunch was a 20 minute hurried affair under a giant pine before we carried on upwards into more wet.
The views of Castle Crags through the must were pretty cool, and I managed to get a few pix without soaking my camera.
Once we were high up above the tree line, the rain eventually stopped, but the trail was choked with saturated bushes so we actually got even wetter as we pushed through!
After what seemed like an age, tired wet feet pounding along not so fun rocky trails, we crossed the Trinity Divide and began dropping down towards Gumboot Lake where we stopped for the night. Our tents were barely up and taut when it decided to rain on us again, but luckily for only 20 minutes or so.
Sitting down for dinner on our foam sit-pads on a rock each, although everything around us was wet, it was a good feed as the cold wet snap we'd been walking through all day had killed off all the bugs! Thank goodness for small mercies!!
RWK
Out!
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