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Extensive tent drying operations in the morning
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Around 10am we finally get going - it rained all night!
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Raindrops keep falling but we push for the past to get over it while we can
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Reaching the far side of Rae Lakes
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The coulds look bad, but they are moving very fast, which is a change
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The weather gradually improves as we go higher
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From Rae Lakes, the trail quickly gains elevation
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The water here is good, too
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Hardly any snow on Glen this year - very strange with all that snow around Muir Pass
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It's cold and windy at the pass, but it doesn't look like rain any longer
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There's hardly a cloud in the distant southwest
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Yes, very cold up here
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He can't wait to get going
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I think this is Mount Stanford south of Charlotte Lake
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Those clouds have us worried
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Below us north of the pass
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Where we spent the last 24 hours hiding from the weather
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In the basin below Glen, connecting to 60 Lakes Basin
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yummie treat found in the hiker barrel at Muir Trail Ranch
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Calorie boost for Claire
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This pass is the steepest of all
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Heading down the southern side
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Approaching the cool turquoise tarn
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We drop down to the lakes quickly
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In September, this lake drops more than 10 feet
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In 2014, I took photos standing on the big boulder submerged in the center
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Almost at the exit of the narrow valley
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Exiting the cirque below the pass
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The big intersection before Vidette
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Still cloudy when we first see the valley up to Forester Pass
