DAY 2. LITTLE FLING
It was colder during the night than I anticipated. It’s weird how last week it was warmer than it should have been, and this week it was colder than it should have been. Maybe it’s just me? When I got up in the middle of the night to do my thing, the zipper on my tent was ended. Remember how I said it broke last week? After that, I rigged it up so it would work, and open and close if I was very careful. Well, I was being careful, but nonetheless, it tore wide open. This time there was no fixing it whatsoever. I knew this would happen eventually, I just hoped it would not be tonight. I zipped up the outer door, but the inner door was wide open. That meant things could still get in such as: bears, snakes, and bugs. I was hoping and praying that none of the above would actually get in. I’m not sure what would be worse. Bears would be worst, but I was not worried about that. Snakes would be next worst, and that was a very real and scary possibility. but the mosquitoes is what I was most concerned with. I hate hate hate the mosquitoes (I think I may have said that before). Fortunately, there were very few mosquitoes and I am thankful nothing got in my tent during the night (not even any ants!).
This small 10 ft. waterfall was right beside my campsite. Since it was there and since I was there, I decided to take some photos of it. It is kinda pretty.
After breakfast and packing up, I headed up the mountain. I had 1200 ft. to climb to the top of the ridge, then down to the trailhead. It was very slow going through the snow. I got back to the car at 12:30PM. That is 6 hours to hike 9 miles (it took 7 hours on the way in). I was beat up from all the snow hiking, but I had a great couple days in the Mokelumne Wilderness.