Meetup: 01 1733.6 6/15/2021 clear, sunny. Left SLC and drove to start at mile 1722.3. Pictures, message to family, off I went at 2 pm. Justin drove ahead down the same dirt road. He got to a water crossing and it didn’t look good. So back he came. We chatted and he went off to find another better water crossing. I continued on. For the first 7 miles I climbed. I was out of breath a lot. My feet were sore too. I went from 8500 to 9200 feet. Should have been easy, but it was hard. After that it was a descent and there were many many blowdown. I kept pushing to get to Justin. I got to him at 7:30 pm. I was exhausted. A quick dinner, put up my tent, did some planning. I’ll be on my own for three days. We’ll meet up at Big Sandy trailhead.
