3.6. In the evening an NZ Hiker of the trail, passed by and told us about the weather forcast for the next day be 80 % change of heavy sunderstorms and snow and hailshowers. Well when we got up after an suprisingly warm night, we realized it was heavy clouds covering the sky and even though the water in the swamp was frozen, it started to rain. We packed up and as it was just drizzling we where reluctant to put rain gear on. After about 2 hours, it really started to downpour and as we reached the place we wanted to get to yesterday, we changes our plans and decided to hike down the next valley, in order to avoid the heavy lightning and Storm up here on the ridge. It was a long 40 km decent on which we met a couple of hikers, telling us that if we continued to the Lake, we would find a resort at the End of it and so we decided to do just that. We where happy for that, cause Guarini had lost both his hind shoes and we needed to reshoe him, but had not the right size shoes for him with us. It rained, hailed and snowed all day and we where trule getting soacked. So after arriving at the Resort and finding a place for the horses, and booking a cabin we checked in to get dried up. After a hearty meal at the restaurant (Steak of chicken) ist not what you think it is, we made some calles on the only landline available to the back country horsemen and also Jürgen, who was in Albequerque, that night. We reached Kristie Hefling (a true Trail angel) and she got us a pair of Double ought irons from her ferrier, promising to bring them up to Pretoro, where we staying.
Pretoro the day after the snowstorm...
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