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0076 We dropped off Vicki's car at the Crescent Meadow Trailhead of the High Sierra Trail in Sequoia National Park
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0231 We spent two nights in Horseshoe Meadows in the Rav4, acclimating to elevation at the Cottonwood Pass Trailhead
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0233 We got up super-early in the Rav4 and enjoyed the heat at full blast, getting ready to hike on the Cottonwood Pass Trail
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0237 We started hiking in the dark, at five-thirty AM, in order to make it over Cottonwood Pass while it was still cool
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0242 Video of listening to Coyotes before dawn across Horseshoe Meadows, from the Cottonwood Pass Trail
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0277 The Cottonwood Pass Trail starts climbing in earnest as we switchback upward to the pass
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0349 Me and my big vintage backpack at the intersection of the Cottonwood Pass Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail
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0354 The meadow that runs west from Cottonwood Pass, leading down toward Big Whitney Meadow
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0360 Traversing along north of Cottonwood Pass on the PCT as we head to Chicken Spring Lake
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0374 Chicken Spring Lake was only a mile from Cottonwood Pass, and Vicki was happy to get there by noon
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0388 We got our first view of Chicken Spring Lake and put down our packs while I scouted out a campsite
