Rained hard again last night, really hard, but not for very long. I am getting rain but each day I hear about people that are getting hailed on. It is always about 1 day ahead of me the hail occurs. Good thing I am slow I guess. The morning was beautiful and I felt ready to try to get to Muir Pass. It was only 7 miles away. How hard can it be. Well it took me from 7:30 until 2:45 to make the pass. 7 hours to do 7 miles. Do not believe I set any speed record. This was the hardest ascent for me. But it was beautiful. It was a series of steep ascents to a plateau where generally there was a lake. The trail would generally take you across the outflow stream from the lake, take you around the lake, and across the inflow stream to the lake and then a steep ascent to the next plateau. Beautiful but for whatever reason, I found it difficult. Here is my hike in pictures.

I camped by Evolution Lake and it looked as if it was going to rain but it did not. First night in awhile there was no rain. Ate some dinner and got ill again.