Problem

When I left my hotel at 6am that morning, I filled up my camelback bladder with ice water. After my warm-up hike up to Inspiration peak, I started hiking up to Lost Horse Mine. It's only two miles along the short side of the trail to get from the trailhead to the mine itself.

 

As I neared the mine, at 10:30am, it was starting to get rather warm. That's when I discovered that I was out of water in my bladder. I took the bladder out of the backpack to discover that that I drank all of the water and that the ice hadn't melted quite as quickly as I thought it would.

 

So, while I wandered around the mine, taking some photos, I left the bladder sitting on the hot sand, in the sun. It didn't all melt, but it melted enough to get me halfway back to the trailhead. Then I had to take the bladder out and just throw it over my shoulder.

 

In the grand scheme of things, having ice instead of water isn't all that big of a problem to have, but it was still a bit annoying.

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