again, we were up at 3 in the morning so we could beat the sun on the way out. It went a lot faster than when we were coming in, and it was much cooler. There weren't any drunk indians that came up to us like last time. When we hit the bottom of the mile-long switchbacks that would take us up to the parking lot, we ran into a scout troop that was just barely getting down to the bottom. The sun was only about 20 mins behind us, and we barely beat it up to the top. Too bad they had to hike the remaining 10 miles in the hot arizona sun with their oversized backpacks.:)
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