Saturday, July 18, 2015

Day 4 July 18th.   Everyone is awake by 6. Still cold and windy. We are stiff and sore.  Ate, cleaned up camp, filled water bottles and headed out at 9:15. Down the Green lakes trail. 2.5 miles of up and down to Moraine Lake. Since I've been trailing most of the time, I decide to take the lead. It only lasted til we  started down hill. I had to baby my knee.  Lots of ascending and descenting. Had to turn on Fall Creek trail, to climb up to the lake. 6500 ft. Wow, Moraine lake is gorgeous. I jumped in, pretty cold... We ate lunch by the lake. There must have been 50 people there. Hard to believe, that many people hiked in there in one day. We left the lake, hiked in the hot sun, to Mesa Creek. Down 1000 ft. Hard on the knees and toes. Hottest day yet. By the time we arrived at camp, we all had blisters. 11 hard miles... I took off my pack and curled up beside it and fell asleep. Woke up, and couldn't believe I slept. All of us soaked our blistered feet in the ice cold creek. Peppered steak for dinner. In tents at 8:30. (I was first again). Warm night, lots of bugs. 29.5 total miles. 18.5 to go.













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