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The sun hadn’t yet peered above
the mountain rim when we reached
the first-mile marker, and no one had
passed us, so I felt we were doing
really well. But as time went on,
people started hurrying by. First just
a few, then whole families. The extra
water in my pack felt like it weighed
a ton, and my muscles were shouting
“Stupid!” at me with every step I
took.
Once we reached the point where
we felt too close to the summit to turn
back, the trail turned steeply upward
into switchbacks up the top of the
canyon rim. I told my daughters it
was time to cache more than half of
