21mi

It's tough following the trail today since nearly every time the trail emerges from the snow it had a small stream flowing through it, you were helplessly forced into the wet muddy trail by thick tall bushes. Down in a valley where the trail was especially muddy I noticed what looked to be barefoot human prints. I was like, "Th-hell?" Upon closer inspection they looked to be black bear prints. It was funny to see them in conjunction with trail runner footprints

Long downhill, long uphill today, but lots of trail in the second half. Met hiker Navi hiking southbound from Silverton, CO for a complicated reason. I told him to hit the Knife Edge early.

Had another campfire drying session at night.