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3 Jul 2011: day 22
Start Destination Daily Miles / Total
County rd 390 6.5 today / 195.0 total

Goodbye Leadville and Leadville Hostel. I won't beseeing you again on this trip. This short stop worked out really great. Wild Bill or Cathy from the hostel is going to mail my bounce box to Salida for me on Tuesday. And they'll keep my snowshoes, gaiters, and trekking pole in storage until I or someone else picksthem up. I finished my shopping and chowed down on a Subway sub. I'd need to be fueled up for the big ascent out of the valley.

I knew I would start hiking late so I just planned on camping at Pine Creek after doing the 2,700 vertical up Waverly mountain. I'm in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness now which I know well. I've hiked or climbed all the 14ers in this stretch and the rest of the Sawatch too. This is something I've been looking forward to - seeing these familiar spots from the perspectiveof a thruhiker.

There are at least six other tents in the vicinity. It's a popular place. Across the trail from me is a group of 3 CT thruhikers, Tyler, Chrissy, & Allie, that I met earlier today and I ate dinner with them earlier. They have some awesome ultralight tents (Zpacks). Everyone else is across the creek. I half expected the 3 thruhikers from yesterday to be here. I guess they moved past.

Some sad news today. I heard that the two lost hikers were found below a cliff on Mt. Missouri. I don't know anything more. RIP.

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