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Day 2 dawns with a spectacular sunrise and another great look at Hance canyon below.  Good thing none of us are sleepwalkers.  Could have made for an early disaster... but then again there would have been more dinner for the rest of us.

We had a light breakfast of power bars, hot chocolate, dried fruit... plus a pound of bacon!  No sense in watching calories and cholesterol on this hike.  Our plan was to burn it up even before it had a chance to make it all the way through the digestive track.  The crew packed up and hit the trail toward Cottonwood creek around 7 AM.   A long day lay ahead of us so the earlier we got started to more we could cram in.

And as it turned out... it was a good thing our launch was energetic and early... read on...