Echo Summit to Lake Aloha- entering Desolation Wilderness- 9 miles
Nancy was able to eat a couple of good meals yesterday so she is with me going into Desolation Wilderness. I'm happy to have the company through this portion of the trail. The trail has changed from a nice dirt path to loose scree and rock. It's very tough on the feet and they ache badly at the end of the day. We "only" have 9 miles to go today but they are tough miles.
We walk along Echo Lake and are able to view the eclipse with special glasses that Nancy brought along. That was way cool. Without the glasses, you would never know it was an eclipse though.
Dennis couldn't find a fix for my bear can so he got me a new one. I like it better than my old one, in fact.
We made it to Lake Aloha about 3pm and soaked our feet. It was SO NICE. It reminded me a lot of Thousand Island Lakes with Banner and Ritter on the JMT. There was a crap ton of people camping there though. We decided to push on to Heather Lake since it was still early. We ended up getting off trail due to large bodies of water and snow covering the trail so we wandering around for an hour trying to figure out how we could get around the obstacles. Then another rain storm rolled in and we decided to backtrack and camp and reassess in the morning. We ran into a couple of dudes, Snow Boarder and Skiier, but they seemed a little nutso so we didn't linger with them.
We found a spot to set up camp and filtered water during a reprieve in the rain. Another dude, Hammock Guy, walked by and said he was lost and asked if we knew how to get around the water and snow. We told him to stay along the shoreline and it should connect back with the trail near the north eastern part of the lake. So he backtracked to set up his hammock for the night and will reassess in the morning as well.
We had massive rain and hail for several hours during the night. My tent was awesome and nothing but my fly was wet the next morning.
Photos can be found on my Instagram @tinahikes
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