Day 43-gaining elevation

The morning was cold. There was ice on a couple of the tents from the morning dew. I was cowboy camped but with my acquired knowledge that camping under trees helps avoid the morning moisture, I stayed dry. I took my time this morning in order to let the slower people get ahead, as we would all be camping together. Then after a solid breakfast and some hot chocolate that i got from the Kennedy meadows hiker box, I headed out. Shortly after leaving i caught escalator and hot cheese who we call the french legion together because they sing while they walk. Ryan was also with them. We all walked the rest of the way and played some games with naming actors colleges and countries. Frequently throughout the day we passed lil Buddha, for now, and Noah. Around 2 we finished our second day of fifteen miles and arrived at death canyon creek. We set up camp, ate lunch and created a washer set up similar to the one Tom has at Kennedy meadows except we used our trekking pole baskets instead of washers and cooking pots as the holes. We played all evening. Everyone rolled in to camp at different times. Most notably the last few were squirrel and little bug (couple), canadoug, and finally crew and his brother Justin who we have named search and rescue because he always gets lost. For dinner I ate mashed potatoes with tuna and they tasted pretty good. We made a fire tonight and hung out for a while before everyone drifted off to bed. The one thing we all seemed to have in common tonight was the need for some pressure equalization. Tomorrow the plan is 21 miles to chicken spring lake which is said to have snow and be very pretty. So far the snow conditions are patchy at around 10500 feet.