Ahh...Oatmeal campground. My favorite...can you sense the sarcasm??? If the bugs weren't so bad at this camp, it would have been a pretty nice spot. The night before it had rained, so the ground was muddy and the plants were wet. The trail was actually flat. I don't think we had too much trouble finding it. The day was hot but not hot enough to dry off the plants, so our gaiters saved half our pants, but the other half was just soaked. Most of the trail was on the side of mountians. The trail went through flower meadows, and previous avalanche areas. It was winding along beside the Snake Indiana River. There were also alot of rivers/creeks to cross. I remember we had to cross this creek, after, we whiped out feet off got our socks, boots and gaiters back on, walked for about 7 minutes and had to take them off again to cross another creek. We ended up eventually taking our boots off and throwing them across the river to walk safetly across. My friend threw her gaiters with her boots and one of the gaiters flew off. We almost lost it down the river, but I was already on the other side so I ran for it, but stepped in some moose sh*t to get to it. She of course laughed at me, but was glad I had saved her gaiter. Thankfully we were right by the river so I washed my foot for about 10 minutes before putting my sock back on. Oatmeal is 12.7kms from Three Slides and 90.2kms from the start. Offically the longest I had ever hiked before. Other than crossing the creeks, the trail that day was pretty fun. It had a lot of good views. We actually didn't get many pictures cause we didn't want to stop because of the bugs. It's a shame, there were alot of "kodak" moments. Near the end of the trail my friend had to use the washroom, so when we got to the camp, which was also a horse camp, she was going to go, except we couldn't find the toilet. We must have searched for about a half-hour before we found it. So she went and came back and told me that she had trouble getting to it. That it actually was sort of an outhouse at one point and was falling apart. So when she showed me it, I kind of looked around and found the real toilet. She was pretty angry at me. I just laughed. This toilet, was nice except everything was still all wet, so of course there happen to be a board sitting right before the toilet log. So when you went to step up to the log, I slipped and almost fell in the toilet hole. That could have been, just great!!! So we set up the tent and went inside for a nap and snackes and it started to rain. Well, it rained pretty much for the rest of the night. There was a break though, so we cooked supper under this spruce tree and cleaned up, hung our food and was back in the tent before it started to rain again for the rest of the night. It wasn't light rain either. It was quite heavy. The only thing I was thinking, was how heavy the tent was going to be to carry. The campsite was right beside the river. If it hadn't been raining, it would have been a really nice spot. We played alot of crib that night, I don't think I won to many. Must have been the rain screwing up my card karma. I mean, you have to blame it on something, right?