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| Good morning, eclipse day! |
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| We took the trekking poles off the tent and weighted it down with rocks so both Ambrose and I could have poles for the short hike. Also, we left my pack behind. Ambrose carried all our day hike gear. |
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| Yet more fallen trees to step over and around. |
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| Some folks Ambrose met through on online backpacking forum hiking ahead of us. |
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| They split off to go to the lake at 8696, while Ambrose and I compromised and went to the bowl near the next crossing of the Queens River. He wanted to stay at the tent because of my ankle, but I insisted that this short hike would be fine. |
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| And so we settled in to watch the eclipse with this vista spread before us. |
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| And Mount Everly. |
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| This is the opposite direction view from Mount Everly. We sat near the middle of those rocks in the foreground. |
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| We did not cross the Queens River here, but I did use the cold water to soak my ankle while we waited for the eclipse to start. That water is very, very cold, let me tell you. |
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| Ambrose checking out the progress of the moon’s occlusion of the sun. |
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| Who scheduled this sunset for before noon? |
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| My camera (or my skill with it) was not up to the task of taking a quality photo of the eclipse. This shot was taken during totality. Mount Everly is in the frame, and the little white streak just to the left of the peak is a prop plane that was flying around during totality – our only company for the event. |
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| Zooming in gave a slightly better impression of the eclipse (and the prop plane). |
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| We were there! And I was wearing both my rain jacket and my down vest, because it did get quite chilly. |
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| Hiking back to camp. |
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| The only crossing of the Queens that we had to do was a rock hop. |
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| We spent the rest of the day chilling out and talking with our neighbors across the river. |