Journal Entries

Summited at about 10:30 AM. Feels good. Next, a long descent.

Plenty of snow to go over on the way up. We used our ice axes quite a bit. Luckily, the snow is soft enough to walk on comfortably, but not so soft that we post holed.

I felt about a million times better this morning, which is especially good since we have our biggest climb of the trip this morning. Wind River Peak, over 13100 feet high. I'm elated that the elevation isn't killing me this morning.

Made camp early, since to go any further we'd be ascending Wind River Peak. I'm pretty beat from hiking up to 10,500 feet today, so an early day is fine. I just hope I'll feel 90% better by tomorrow morning.

Hiking at Point Reyes, Kelham Beach.

A nice meadow on the home stretch of our loop.

Easy hiking today, if you don't count the altitude. It's getting to me in a big way, which will hopefully wear off by tomorrow. Today is our last scheduled easy day. Tomorrow is a big climb over Wind River Peak. Lots of snow still up here...

Another view of the beach.

The loop took us by two beaches. We decided to stop and look at the second one, which to our surprise had a lot of people. Apparently this beach is also easily accessible from a shorter, more direct "superhighway" trail. Sometimes this realization is a little disappointing after working hard to get somewhere. Kind of like climbing a mountain and meeting a bunch of people who got there via a gondola. Nevertheless, the beach was beautiful and a great break stop.

Once we got closer to the shore, we encountered foggy and cooler conditions. We didn't get a lot of coastal views, but the fog was beautiful in it's own way.