Day 205: Myrtle Flat to Cold Spring...

Day two was hard. Up a canyon on a hot, hot day. We climbed from 4,300 feet up t0 7,000 feet before descending to our campsite at 6,300 feet.

Here I am at the top of Chips Canyon..

Lots of water on this section. Roaring streams which (eventually) led to disaster...

More stream crossing...

And yet more stream crossing...

The Therapist in a mountain meadow...

Me, with Mt. Lassen in the background. We had so many beautiful views of Mt. Lassen that I stopped taking photos of it (I wish I had documented the mountain getting closer and closer to us)...

Up the trail...

PCT hikers are a kind and loving group...

The Abbot at Cold Springs. The water here truly was cold. This would be our last water for 24 miles...

And Old School joined us again at this campsite...

So what was the disaster? The Abbot went wading in Chips Creek and forgot he had his Iphone with him. We had a GPS loaded onto the phone. The result? We lost the global positioning for the rest of the trip.

We got lost within 15 minutes of losing the cell phone. The trail got real confusing and we spent around a half hour looking for it before the Therapist stumbled upon the trail. We missed a river crossing that was poorly marked.