Day 113 - Low elevation Day

October 8th

17 Miles

Base of Saddle

After sleeping off the horrible pain of my toes and chaffing, the morning went pretty smoothly. The tent had little condensation and we were out hiking by 8:30. The morning was spent along a small creek in a valley surrounded by peak fall colored aspens and evergreens above them on the hillsides. 

As we trudged along we picked up a dirt jeep trail and pretty much followed different jeep paths from that point on. Water was here and there like most days so we took lunch by a water source. As we got past lunch the environment became drier and sagebrush was dominant once again in this lower desert landscape at a 'low' elevation of 9400. We climbed back up a bit with the open countryside to our right and aspens to our left.

After our gradual climb back up to ten thousand feet, we descended back down to our second and final water of the night where we tanked up and moseyed our way to treeline to find a spot to set up for the night.