LEft Hermit Creek at 6a for same trail run as yesterday - again GPS not working too well, 30:00 run again with a couple of stumbles and scaring a hiker who did not hear me coming up behind him and telling him I was coming :) 2.5 miles trail run - 30:00 Started hardest part of hike @~ 7a - Hermit Creek to Boucher Creek on Boucher Trail. Several difficult near vertical climbs as well as a fair amount of vertical exposure spots made for a challenging 5.5 miles of hiking. One member of the group and I hiked off at a faster pace and reached the Boucher Trail split off to wait for the rest of the group and be sure of which way we were supposed to be going :)... After everybody was caught up and had a chance to rest, we headed on down the trail to Boucher Creek and made it to camp site #2 by 4p, by which time the sun was beating down and was starting to take its toll - I think it was about 85 degrees, which the hottest it ever got for this trip.
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