Woke at 7:00. Due to our newly acquired organizational abilities, we left camp at 10 a.m., a minor miracle. It took us about an hour to crawl out of Pine Lakes basin (including time for me to have a few small panic attacks on the trail). Then for four hours we descended from the pass, stopped at a roaring spring for water (unfiltered), ate lunch in a cow-infested pine stand in the meadow, and traversed the last hill before descending to the trailhead. We arrived at 3:20. Raz met us with the truck (we had called him from a high point on the trail). We said goodbye to our trusty llamas (who didn't exactly seem heartbroken) and headed back to Baker City. With my gift certificate (see June travelogue) we got the Honeymoon Suite at the Geiser, which was a fantastic windfall after five days in the dust. Melina's bath water was nearly opaque, in part due to the laundering of her kitty, which was a dust sponge.
Ate at Barley Brown's brewpub in Baker City and replenished any calories we may have burned off.
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