Smiles jams across the bridge at Echo Lake on our way back to the trail.
Warming the feet up with full packs on the way past Echo Lake.
Mile 1,100, almost right off the bat!
A nice reward for a short, yet surprisingly long first day back on the trail.
A long and tiring.... 8 miles?!?! Both Smiles and I hiked out way too much (I had a cooked DiGiorno Pizza and the laptop, Smiles had some spare wine and beer from the cabin), and we were weary quickly under the heavy packs after such a long break from hiking. Everything hurt a little bit. The Wolfpack hiked out of Echo Lake together, but Chik-chak was sufffering from IT band tightness quite badly. Aloha lake was great - a shallow, granite basin with clear water - but it had nonexistent fishing as far as I could tell. We camped out on the spacious granite apron near the lake and lightened our load significantly by having pizza and beer for dinner. An unusual backpacking food, but we are getting to the point where anything goes! Waste not, want not!
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