Day 8, 9:34 AM - Looking back to Granite Pass
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After an hour on the trail, I looked back into the basin to the location of my last camp. Can you guess where in the picture it is? That's right, it's back in that little cove behind the rocky bluff. Good guess. From this point the trail crosses over a ridge and into a steep wooded ravine that just goes down, down down...