24 Hours: Nine Months Til Summer

I posted the next episode of "24" yesterday. It will go online, with photos and narrative, at Backpacking Light next week.

For this episode, I traversed (in rather wintry conditions in early October) the divide from Hyalite to Cottonwood, and was joined by Ryan Connelly for the latter part of the trip. He showed up in my camp around midnight!

Cold, snow, wind, sneakers, a neat tent, fire, soup…