Sun Sep 16, 2018 @ 05:34

Ptarmigan tunnel as the clouds rolled in. It snowed on us (round snow, it think it's called graupel?) And we hid in the tunnel for an hour hoping it would pass. We got a clear gap and made a dash for it, only to find ourselves hiking down in cloud even thicker than this, with lightning all around and snow falling again. As we got lower from the pass the graupel turned into rain and we trudged on in the wet.

We camped super early because we were worried about getting a hitch from the border after it closed, and managed to stay at a campsite that allowed fires and even had rangers at it who offered us dry kindling! It was the first time I felt warm the whole time we were in Glacier I think. And it felt fitting for the trail to make us suffer one more time before the end...