Today, Thursday, July 8 it finally did not rain on us. The first two days of our hike dawned with cloudless skies, but by 10am the first hints of small puffy clouds began to form. As the day heated up, these little puffs of condensed moisture grew until about 2pm they obscured the sun, then thickened, turned black and began pelting us with rain about 3 or 4. Of course, we could see the events and predict our future, so we were snug in our tent both days as the first drops started to fall. About 7pm, the energy in the atmosphere dissipated, the rain stopped and we crawled out of our tent to watch night fall, so back into the tent for sleep and up the next morning to cloudless skies and a repeat weather performance.
But today, Thursday we are at our garden oasis of the Sierra, Emerick Lake. The clouds began to form, but never threatened, and we enjoyed a delightful day by the outlet fishing, exploring and reading. We built a small fire to cook the fish and enjoyed two very fat 16" and 14" trout.
Tomorrow we head down the hill to Merced Lake.
Chuck
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