High Sierra Topix

Thanks balzaccom. I must have walked right by it then. That was the hardest day I have ever put in. It was more the mental effort than the physical and the physical was pretty hard.

I've done the same thing. I was heading up from 5 Acre lake to Red Can, and went to far in the wrong direction , it was a terribly hot day, and started getting the symptoms of heat fatigue as I blundered around through Manzanita bush on a hot slope .I began to panic a bit. I found a small spring bubbling down from the ridge. I wet my head, got in some shade, and relaxed.. got my senses back. Took a good long look at my map, with my compass, and figured out where I had gone wrong. It's so true what they say, sit down, relax, cool down and reevaluate your situation.