Wild day on the peaks this afternoon. Got a late start so I was hoping for a little cloud cover and some weather. Got just what I wanted, windy, fogged in, a little mist of rain. Perfect.
Cruised up the BL, said hey to the Camo guys looking for goats in all the wrong places, Ha! I'm not going to tell them where they're at. Beautiful misty ridge running over to Willard. Solid power hike to the peak.....then I don't know what went wrong but I got turned around in the fog and instead of going south, ended up going north off the end of the peak and ended up right back where I started....walking in circles...what an idiot. Guess I was a litlle distracted by these guys:
Ghosts in the fog....It seemed I kept stumbling into heards over every rock out cropping. They are pretty tame up here and used to people, but they did have little one's with them and the fact that a dozen or so get picked off every year by Camo types like I saw earlier (they might have a grudge) meant I tried to give them some space.
Back to the car and up Lewis for ways before the lightening and a very intense down pour turned me around....worried about all the slow movers in jeans and t-shirts I passed up on BL that were no doubt caught up high by the deluge.....
Day: 24ish miles, around 6800 vert
Week: 70 miles, just about 17,000 vert, 34,000 for two weeks.
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