July 17

7/17

17 miles (1160 to 1170)

We got up early and hiked two miles to the peter grubb hut, another backcountry ski hut, to make breakfast. Terrain wasn't super challenging and we were feeling good, ready to start putting in big miles. However, we picked dahlia up in south lake and she is not ready to do the big miles. We hiked 14 miles by lunch, clay and I felt good and were ready to do another 12 this afternoon to have an easy walk into Sierra city to meet Claire tomorrow. As we left lunch it became clear that dahlia was not feeling so energetic. We think her pads on her paws are sore, we wanted to ease her into the hike but haven't been. So we put up our tent at 4 to make sure we don't push d too far. We aren't sure what our next steps will be.  I think we will hike two short days tomorrow and Sunday and see how she is doing after that. 

Trail magic!