6.5 miles, 3300' gain, 1700' descent

What is this I wake up to? Can it really be? YES! Sunshine!!! We are saved!!!!!!

The sun doesn't last all day, as clouds end up covering much of Spray Park, but the trend is reversed: we're no longer getting wetter, and some things even manage to get a bit drier.

This is a big climb day, up through Seattle Park into a desolate high landscape of rocks and cairns with even a tiny remaining bit of snowfield to cross, then down through Spray Park which remains beautiful despite the cloudy weather and wildflowers being mostly finished for the year.

My knee is bugging me. It's creaking when I climb, and hurting when I descend. Urgh. Not bad enough to be a major problem yet, but I'm worried enough about it to be thinking about how Mowich tomorrow will be the last good bailout point before we set off down the remote west side of the mountain.