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) headed for the rim. The intention was to start at the Pinchot Cabin parking area and do the loop. After arriving at the turnoff for General Springs we decided we had driven far enough. Strapped our packs on, strapped two packs on the dogs and hit the Rim Road. 
Our departure time was 8:30AM.
). After coming to this conclusion we decided to backtrack nearly to the Rim Road and intercepted FR 139. After awhile walking again, we were beginning to think we missed the junction again and debated just doing the West loop. We decided to press on for five more minutes and if nothing appeared we would turn around and abandoned our plan on doing the East loop. Luck would have it that we found the junction (easily marked, even the blind could find it 
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. We bagged our food after dark and hung it (last year at this campsite my group watched a bear walk past the sign-in book area just before dark). After the long day we bedded down. Sometime around midnight the dogs or an animal, or me, or my roommate startled all of us. I woke up, screamed like a pansy 
(at least one of us did), yelled for the dogs to lay back down and began flashing our lights around attempting to find the cause of the disturbance. No luck. 
Besides an elevated heart rate and jumping up so fast that I nailed my leg on a stump, no one was injured.
. A quick two hours and we returned to the car at......wait for it....8:30AM. Not bad for a 24 hour backpacking trip. 
