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I spent my summer vacation hiking and camping in the Sierra Nevada with my friend Kyle at the end of July. This was the second attempt to reach a remote basin of lakes above 11,000′. I spent 10 months training and lost 25 pounds in anticipation of the ass kicking I was going to take at altitude.
After taking a scenic detour that added maybe nine miles to the unmarked, single lane forest service road, we arrived at the trailhead two and half hours later than we planned.
The first …