Day 60- a lot for nothin

Today was a rough day. The 19 miles I did felt more like 30. I was either walking on a snow covered trail or attempting to locate the trail. I'm sure I walked over 25 total miles today as was the plan. I woke up at benson lake and began my climb towards Pearson pass. There was snow all over as I neared the top. I was just hoping the footprints were right. I made it over the less than spectacular pass with ease and began the decent into Kerrick canyon. It was one of the scariest parts of the trail so far. I had to walk along a 60% grade hill, if I fell I would have ended up in rancheria creek. Which was really moving. I made it along and decided to cross the creek before the trail did and walk the other side until I saw the trail crossing. This was a bad idea and after I crossed I walked for so long i thought I missed the trail. Then the brilliant idea came to try to cross the creek back to the original side and walk along that to find the trail. This did not go well as I forgot to put my camera up high and it may be ruined now from the wetness. I made it fine and the trail ended up crossing only 100 yards further down than I was at. This ordeal took up all morning so I had lunch only 8 miles into the day. Next uncounted out of that canyon into another with some easy log walking to cross the creek. Around wilmer lake I met mowgli and shaker. They had a gps so I stuck with them for a while. Eventually we got to Fall creek. It was enormous and very scary so we walked upstream for a mile or two looking for a place to cross. Since the water does not bother me too much an I do well in crossings, I would always try out a potential crossing place. After maybe 10 different spots that looked just a little too deep or fast we got to one that looked manageable. The only problem was that we could only see the near half of the creek because it was so wide. I tried it our. I got halfway and it was waist deep with a mild current. A little further and it was to my belly button but I only had 20 feet to get to the other side. It got deeper but I went for it. It was almost to my shoulders so I went diagonal downstream with the current and made it across, and i was also soak and wet. I looked back at the other side and they said it was too deep and would move on. I surveyed the damage and all that was wet was a little bit of my sleeping bag. Not too bad! I laid it out, had a snack then pushed on for a couple miles before having my first fire in over a week. It was needed to warm up. Tomorrow hopefully I can get in some bigger miles.