We hiked about 9 miles this morning down off an extremely windy ridge. We had spent the whole day before that in a steady, joint pounding down hill slog off the same mountainside, so it was a relief to finally get to the home of the trail angels Ziggy and The Bear. Here we saw many people we had been passing back and forth on the trail, so it was fun to have a chance to relax and actually talk with them.

A girl named Stampede was doing body art with a sharpe ink pen...just amazing work. I got brave and asked her to draw on me too. I'm so blown away!!! I may have to make this permanent some day :-)