After our hike on Friday Mike had planned to hit a motel - he's not a camper... yet - while I was going to camp somewhere. It quickly became apparent that there was no vacancies to be had. Leaf peepers( and apparently circus performers, and car show enthusiasts and.... ) had taken all the motel rooms. In the end Mike decided to head for home but not before we had dinner and a beer to celebrate the (almost) end of hiking season and the successes of the '06 climbing campaign. After he headed home I went back to South Meadow and was able to squeeze my car into a spot and slept in the back. All night long, more and more cars arrived (South Meadow is free camping!). They would park in various places and set up tents in the woods nearby. When I got up at 7 in the morning the place was looking incredibly crowded (apparently it would get worse through the day). This was my first indication (or perhaps second after Mikes motel issues) that this weekend was not going to be a typical weekend in the mountains.
I took this shot driving back out from South Meadow to the highway. The morning light and fog coming up from Mirror lake looked quite spectacular.
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