Wildhorse Canyon Hike
Oct. 9 and 10, 2004

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The creek was just a welcome trickle.
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The sun gets low early in the canyon this time of year.
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Exploring around the campsite.
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This reminded me of the knitting projects of April that use multiple needles.
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Cooking dinner in twilight.
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Sunday morning. The thermometer shows that it is still below 30 degrees. The boys moved into the tent in the dark early morning hours. It was a lot colder that we anticipated.
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The morning sun coming over the canyon.
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Boiling water for breakfast. A campfire would have been nice last night. It would have been especially nice to warm up to this morning.
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The morning light plays in the canyon.
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Filtering water for the hike back.
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Ready to return home, not wanting to stay another night in the subfreezing temperatures. So the peak will wait for another day,
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The low clouds and fog down below.
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Packs off rest at the same spot as the day before, after about an hour and a half of hiking.
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One particularly washed out spot on the lower portion of the the trail.
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A lot of standing dead wood, I assume from the bark beatle.
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This last mile was particularly uncomfortable walking for me on the endless rocks.
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The trail is the drainage. Not an erosion bar in sight.
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Back at the trailhead.
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