Waking up to our beautiful view of the tooth of time, our crew made last-minute preparations to depart. At 10:00 we caught the bus to the Ponil trailhead. As we were still getting acclimated to the altitude, we hiked only a short distance, ending up at Camp Ponil. The scouts (and advisors) were excited to have a fresh root beer at the camp saloon. We all tried our hand at lasooing "metal cattle" with one success each by Griffin and Charlie.
Leaving the staff camp at 2, we had only another short mile hike to our campsite at Dean Cutoff. Our ranger, Jack, demonstrated how to hang the bear bag, to keep food out of reach of hungry bears. Later, we setup our dining rain fly and ate a communal meal of Mexican beans and vegetables -- the flavor of which was greatly improved by Mike's habanero salsa. As soon as darkness came, I hit the sack. It was a great feeling to go to sleep to the sound of the nearby burbling brook. Total miles: 2.1
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