Weee....here we go, off to Bying Campground. One of the better campgrounds on the trail. The night we spent at Oatmeal was rainy. It had rained all night, and I didn't think it was going to end. But then about an hour before we got up to make breakfast it stopped. It stopped for the rest of the day too. I was so glad, it would have been really sucky to walk in the rain. Breakfast was the worst. If you thought the bugs we bad durning supper, you were wrong. We had oatmeal, cause we thought it would perfect due to the fact the campground was called Oatmeal. Everytime you went to get a spoonful you would get 10 misquitos in the pot, then while the spoon was on the way to your mouth, you would get three more in the spoonful of oatmeal. So we ended up grabing a spoonful each, quickly, pulling out the misquitos that flew in the pot and putting the lid back on top of the pot. Then you had to pull the ones off you spoon then eat it. So by the time we were done, it was cold. But we did get some protein that day. When you went to pull the misquitos out, there legs would get stuck and rip off. Umm...misquito legs!! So lets just say we were not happy we had decided to do this trail. I think that was the day we said we were never doing this trail agian. So Bying is 102.4 kms from the start and 12.2 kms from Oatmeal. So the trip that day was pretty short. Except the fact that it was pretty much all uphill for half of it and then seriously downhill for the rest. That was the day you reach Snake Indiana Pass, which is at 2020m. Since we were climbing pretty high that day, the misquitos thined out. Not stopped, thined out. I actually took my toque off, but if you had seen my hair, I should have kept it on. That day was also a little worrysome. While on the climb up to the pass, there are areas of the trail that are sort of boggyish, wet and grassy. It's hard to explain, but the trail disappears in some of these areas. We had to guess where it was going. When you don't know where you are going and don't have a great map, you don't want to lose the trail. you couldn't even see other footprints to follow, so we decided to just keep heading straight. Lucky we did find the trail everytime. But I can see someone getting lost there. Other than those spots the trail is quite nice. You cross a lot of valleys. Once you get ot the pass, you start descending to the campground, which was probably five more kms. The downhill was not bad, it was a little muddy but good. There we no spots where we lost the trail. But it was long and tiring. One point in the trial I had said that this would be a good spot for a campground, well I would say this everyday, and the campground would always be a couple more kms ahead, but just as I said this, my friend saw a sign. Too my suprise that was the camp. It was so nice, I was so happy to be there. The misquitos weren't bad either. It was right by a river. So since no one was there we put our tent right by the fireplace and let it dry out. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. The was a bit of a trek to the washroom, agian uphill. What are they thinking when they put a washroom up a hill after you have been hiking all day?? Anyway, we had a bit of a wash and washed our socks agian. It was a good thing, we were starting to stink again. Not that we still didn't stink, but we couldn't smell each other so it was good enough. We also made some hot apple cider. Oh baby!!! That is some good stuff in the mountians. It just hit the spot. So there we were, sitting in the sun drinking our hot apple cider, it was a good day. Supper not so much. We had some kind of thai lipton noodles. I didn't really like it, so I didn't eat much that day. I won't be bringing those agian. The rest of the night went uneventfully. Just one peice of advice if you do go on a overnight camping trip, bring food that you know you like. It then tastes ten times better cause your hungry, and your not about to lose all the food you ate that morning.