25.9mi

- Holy shit the mosquitoes in the morning drove me nearly insane.

- Ran into Mac and appa at the top of the first pass today. I guess Mac started the three seconds of video a day for the PCT and it became pretty popular and you tube.

- We all tried shoe skiing down a short shoot of snow, being last I made the mistake of using overdue shoes with no tread, so I got moving much faster and fell trying to keep from sliding into a rock. Bad choices. I split my knuckle open but not too bad.

- I convinced the other two to ride on an air mattress down a snowy slope that ended and icy cold water beneath a beautiful tower.

- Loss my bear spray right before the settlement of Texas pass, and had to backtrack all over the downhill just to finish the really steep .7 mile climb again.

- A freak storm came rolling in nearing the top of a partially wooded climb, it was so sudden with the wind and lightning that I had to literally crouched under a giant rock to stay out of the hail, rain, lightning. It was probably gone after 30min.

- Passed hikers Thunder & Snow at the end of the day when removing rain gear after things finally cleared up.

- Camped on top of a rock to get some wind in order to get away from mosquitoes at night.