Did I mention that the beds at Mt. Princeton were really comfy? Nice squishy pillows and thick comforters...thus, we slept really late. Dragged ourselves out of bed for a humongous breakfast in the restaurant, then rolled ourselves back up the hill to pack up and take off. Everything takes longer when you're so full you can't really function, but we still managed to be back out on the trail by 11.
The trail takes you along Bunny lane (we were going to hop down Bunny lane, but we were still to full!) for a while, which wanders around a little on the valley floor along Chalk Creek. We saw lots of cute little B&B's and (not so little) rental cabins down there. The climb out of the Mt Princeton valley was sunny and hot, but there were really impressive views of the Chalk Cliffs towering on the sides.
It started raining around 1:30, and kept dripping for most of the afternoon. We could see Mt. Shavano (a 14-er) for a little while, before the clouds set in. Wildlife for today was a grey owl in an aspen grove, and a herd of cows in a later aspen grove. The owl was obviously the cooler of the 2, but the cows stood still for pictures.
At camp in the evening we realized that we must have left Brent's little photon headlamp in the room at Mt Princeton. I'm kind of sad about that, it was carried all the way on the PCT! Then, of course, it started to rain again, so we had to scramble to finish dinner and get everything stowed before it got wet. A quick note - just so you understand how ginormous our breakfast was, we weren't even less full until 4 pm. We ate 2 meals today, and at dinner we weren't even hungry, we just knew we should eat! It was a really big breakfast.
kim
p.s. another quick note - I mentioned in the last post that Nathan and Janelle sent us swimsuits? It was actually a whole care package, with snickers bars, flip-flops, and Emergen-C drink packets. It was great! We even got pack mascots!
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