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Buttermilk Country
Mount Humphreys (13,986') Distant middle
I decided to check out my ability to hike with an inguinal hernia and a truss. Made it over two miles and a thousand foot elevation gain to past the Sunny Boy Mine cabin. About half way to Horton Lake. Had to stop a few hundred yards before getting back to the Jeep because I felt like I was going to throw up. Damn umbilical hernia problem which should go away after the inguinal is fixed. Parked the Grand Cherokee at the wilderness boundary gate. Ran into almost a dozen LA Sierra Club people coming up to spend the night at Horton Lake before attempting Basin Peak the next day. They had parked a mile and a half distance and five hundred elevation feet lower. Camped just below the trailhead near an unnamed creek the first night (7,650') and near McGee Creek (7,950') in a forest the second.
Sunrise on Mount Toms from first camp	Sunny Boy Mine Cabin
Turn back view, unnamed pyramid shaped  peak behind Horton Lake which was a couple more miles and a thousand feet higher than the 9,000' turn around.
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