Following our hot traversal on the desert floor yesterday, rain arrived overnight, and quite a lot.

We still had well over 3000′ to climb to Manning camp to perform, and it turned out that everything just a few hundred feet above us was snow covered to a couple of inches.

Unlike the sweating temperatures of yesterday it was sub zero a good part of the day, and never really warm even after we descended thousands of feet to the valley.

Definitely the toughest climb since the first day.