Since "W" Missed me so much...

[Mako19]

Day 2 was a "rest" day.
We left camp set up and took a 6 mile (one way) day hike with 1000' of elevation change to Ribbon Falls.

Since we didn't have to bring out packs, just water and water purifier (you will see my ubddy purifing water from the stream in one pic) it was an easy and fun hike.

Ate lunch at Ribbon Falls which was beautiful!

I'm trying to keep the pictures in order from day to day but finding it difficult. I hope you get the idea from my explanations.

[Mako19]

The morning of Day 3 meant it was time to start hiking out.
My legs were already pissed off as could be at me (soar) because I didn't do near the training that I should have done.

But what were my option? I think picture 1 here describes them pretty well.

We hiked 6 miles out, which is halfway distance-wise but only 1500' of the 4500' of elevation we needed to reach the rim.