End: Tully Hole - it's gorgeous!
Daily: 11.1
Total: 889.6
Today wasn't as hard as we thought it would be. The morning was hard - first we had to ford the scariest creek since Wright Creek (it was white and roiling and moving really fast at one part) and then while climbing a switchbacky hill of ridiculousness about fifteen minutes later, we forded a spot where there was a waterfall on either side. Scary!
But then we climbed the pass, which wasn't too bad, and got to glisade about a mile and a half of trail out of the way. That doesn't mean we glisaded for a mile and a half, but that because the trail, which normally switchbacks down the pass was covered in snow, so instead of zigzagging down the hill on the trail, we just slid down in a straight line on our butts. After that, we were so much closer to camp than we thought we would be by that time that I think we got a little energy boost. Also going down steep hills on snow has gotten so common that we've gotten pretty good at it. You could say we've gotten our snow feet. Up and flat on snow still sucks though.
Anyway, we camped with Thumper, who we shared a site with at kickoff. His wife Stumbling Goat had "hypothermic reactions" (?) to the stream crossings so she left at VVR. Sad.
On another note, we may be the only people who didn't go to VVR. And our wallets are happier for it.
Maybe a restaurant meal tomorrow. 17.1 miles first, though.
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