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- Was up and out by 7:30 this morning, yet I was still the only one that was really up out of the 6 tents pitched.

- So far the South Winds have just as much sage as the basin, it just has a lot more elevation change and trees.

- Since this is now grizzly bear country and I've begun clapping my hands periodically to forewarn bears. Who knows if it helps. I'm coming around corners or blind spots within the forests.

- Unlike Colorado, the mountains of Wyoming do not have airplanes flying over them constantly. Long periods of pure silence struck me as bizarre at first out here

- Made it onto the beginning of the Cirque of Towers alternate route in the Winds, and boy is there a lot of mosquitoes. A LOT.