03-21-13 Somewhere near Big Cedar Mountain

Started the day early, but got lured back to the campfire--our water bottles had frozen during the night. Tinker mentioned it would be nice to have a chainsaw to cut the larger branches we had to burn. Within minutes, a car pulled up with a guy and a chainsaw. He cut thru several branches for us, gave us toilet paper and half of a two-liter of Dr. Pepper. Thank you!

We hiked up Justus Mountain, back down, and cruised into Gooch Gap. We stopped for lunch at Woody Gap--another tin of salmon--but this time we knew there was a trash can.

Made a final push into Lance Creek for the night and set up camp. This was very important so that we were properly positioned to get through the "bear canister camping restriction area" the next day.

Used our stove for the first time. A little slow going, but the lukewarm ramen was delicious!