Day 121

Day 121 8/12
Mile mark 2230.0-2257.9
Steamboat Lake to Lava Springs

The day started out quite nice.

Then the rain, lighting, and hail started. Above a stream on the left and the trail(now a stream) on the right. In some places the accumulated hail was a few inches thick.

Even the little creeks were nearly overflowing.

The bigger creeks were even scarier to cross. The water in this creek was freezing and filled our shoes with sand. As we were crossing there was a sound like thunder, which was actually large rocks further upstream being carried downstream. This was the second coldest I’d been on trail and one of the worst days.