November 2

This morning we woke up to frost covering our everything. The four of us cowboy camped and I did the brilliant thing of leaving my fleece sweater out where it could be full of frost for me when I put it on. All things considered, it still wasn't that cold in the morning hiking hours. It warned up quickly in the day, but was still cool enough all day to never be uncomfortable. We hiked to the Deep Creek Hot Springs area to find it packed being that it is Saturday. I decided not to soak after Nat showed me the name of the amoeba swimming in the pools. The name had the root menange-... And sounded like meningitis so I stayed clear of the water. We didn't want to spend too much time there anyway in keeping with our schedule, but it was a cool place to check out. There were a lot of day hikers after and around the hot springs that all were so impressed with our hike, but soon we got to a more remote part of the trail and were back to being alone again. Smooth was left behind when he went off trail for a bit, and ended up showing up to camp almost an hour after we arrived. We have a short 26 mile day tomorrow before Nat, Jane and Smooth go into Big Bear City. Forest "Tittycakes" and I will hike together for the following few days.