Coldest night yet, I woke and packed my bag quick to find pockets of sun for he warm my bones. Chris and I talked of a self routed thru hike of every 14,000ft mountain in Colorado. We hiked today around 15 miles on 2 liters of water with a climb up to 9,000ft and realized we should have probably taken a more water accessible route through a canyon west of the trail that didn't lead to a terrible cow feces and mud filled pool of water near the end of the day. It had a similar look to diluted chocolate milk once put into one of my dirty water bottles. Luckily we were able to backtrack easily to a much cleaner pond of water called Lopez Tank.

Nearing the end of the day at Aragon Well I got whiffs of forest fire smoke from the dying Kerr forest fire nearby. The smoke in the sky off in the distance resulted in a wild almost fire like sunset.