- SF2T 2026 Day 6, June 14, Sunday
- Start Santa Barbara Campground mile 66.1
- End Trail 22, past Los Esteros pond, mile 73.1
- Miles walked: 7
After a fine breakfast, all 3 NMVFO crews worked on Centennial Trail this morning, leap-frogging each other.
We return to Santa Barbara Campground by 12:30, and everyone departs, while I resume my hike just as rain begins, first showers, then steady with thunder accents. I cross a creek wet-foot style on Indian Creek Trail, and climb in the rain from 8.3k to 11.7k elevation, where there is dense understory of one plant, that I had encountered before at high elevations, possibly kinnikinnick.
The route joins the Divide Trail, and views to the east are fogged over. I follow along a firebreak.
Soon I descend on Trail 22, thoroughly drenched and cold, and get to lower elevation and finally pitch a tent, climb in, dry off, and warm up.
Finished audiobook A Plague of Pythons, by Frederik Pohl.