We head off for breakfast at the local diner, and both order 'the hungry man's platter'. Then we head off with packs and walk on to the highway to hitch back to the trail. Immediately a car stops heading in to town, with Sourdough and Spiritwalker, and they say - 'We can take you out to the trail,' so we had a quick return.
Sourdough hiked with us today, and it was great to walk and talk and catch up with all the news as we had not seen him for a few weeks. It is a hard slog - a climb of 2000' to the summit of Mt Success. We have lunch when we find a water source - water is scarce.
We arrive at Gentian Pond at about 5 pm and find a group of college students camping. We take platforms further up the hill and hope they won't be too noisy. We fall in love with the college students when they present each of us with a chocolate bar which they say is 'surplus to requirements'. We also meet 'Trooper' for the first time - he camps further up the hill in a patch of scrub - very much the lone wolf. But he does eat his chocolate bar.
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