Day 102

25 Miles

Light rain during the night, but a calm and dry morning. Flash and Nope leapfrogged with us all day. Stoked and Right On Time, and Shorts and Pepperjack were also at the first water source. Lunch was at a trailhead where an old dude warned us all that Etna was getting overrun with hikers. We had rain off and on all afternoon, mixed with light hail and scary-close lightning. It tapered off by the time we reached camp near some grazing, mooing cows. Ran into Happy Hour who was looking for water, but decided to pitch near us instead of going ahead to the next stream. Sleep came quick after a big day.