Day 16: up again

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We got a good night’s sleep and a reasonably early start. Once again the scenery changed, with more sedimentary rocks and different colors.I was a bit apprehensive about today, as we had heard that the trail (which largely followed a creek as it wound up into the mountains) had been washed away in many places, plus we would have about 5000′ elevation to climb.Both of these proved to be true, but we made good time and got to a nice campsite at about 1:30. We decided not to go on because the next section is 16 miles with no water.But at 7921 feet it promises to be a cold night!I just realised that in the past week we have climbed up and down the equivalent of two times Mt Kosciuszko.