Wed. July 17th
Miles: 9.2
Total: ~180.6
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Well, we opted to not start up last night because of the anticipated rain on wednesday. We did not want to go over Old Snowy on a rainy day. Who knows what tomorrow will hold, but today was a cold slog through rain.
We started with a PCT onramp trail, the Nannie Ridge trail. This was the same trail we came off of with Mittens when he injured his knee. It was roughly 1800 feet over 2.5 miles, so it was a sweat breaker for sure. Add to the sweat a light misting and then everything was wet.
By the time we reached the top of the climb the mist had turned into rain, and the rest of the day was a constant toggle between rain, mist, fog, and light cold wind. It really was an attempt at giving us the worst weather of our hike. In the past, it was light rain with sun bursts, or at the very least dryish stretches. This was not the case today.
We reached an early conclusion that we would march the miles rather than stop for lunch. When we stopped to filter water for the afternoon, we were exposed to drafty cold air, glacial fed streams and an all around cold misery. Needless to say, we filtered quickly and moved on to our campsite a short bit further down the trail. Upon reflection this rain and wind might be the coldest and wettest Apricots and I have experienced on the trail. We certainly have been drenched before, but wind chill was dropping thd temps to the lower 30s.
At 3:30 we put up tents and climbed into them to don our dry clothes. V8 had his Garmin InReach do a weather analysis. Looks like rain until 11am tomorrow. We may be doing the 20 hour tent nap. It is a little cold now during the day, but in our bags it is not too bad.
The time will pass slow. Hopefully the clouds pass faster. This time we will bundle Phoenix between our sleeping bags so she will stay warm, and not soak my down jacket.
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