I've stopped at Casa de Luna, a well known trail angel place. There's bbq and beer. Talked with Caitlyn from Colorado. She has a 9-lb base weight in a frameless MLD pack. Mine is around 14 lb. I've met a few guys pulling consistent 30-mile days. Brian has shot ahead; Squints is hanging out playing the poker. Really good seeing him again. Politics designs water treatment systems for a living and schooled me on backcountry water treatment ("Algal toxins should be neutralized by chlorine dioxide"). He's using an MSR Guardian pump which filters viruses, and is probably the most hardcore filter on the market. Bud and his wife Fret (the verb) are also new people. Bud's not taking an ice axe into the Sierra, Fret, true to her name, is.
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