20.3 miles of hiking • 5000' elevation gain • 1 night
Trying to beat the heat left late Friday morning and reached the The Tubal Cain TH early afternoon. Made camp at my top secret location up by the pass at around 6500'. Very mild temps for this time of year and at this elevation with overnight temps in the low 60's. Rose early the next day and and could tell it was going to be a scorcher and we wanted to get a Buckhorn summit climb in before it got to hot and then take a dip in Buckhorn lake on the hike out. As always the views from the Buckhorn summit on a clear days never disappoint and the quick dip in the lake was icing on the cake.