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I went hiking with a friend in the spring right as corona was shutting everything down. I wasn't all that experienced, but I've been backpacking every month on average now since.
We ended up hiking off trail in the cascades, leading us marching up a snowy mountain which we didn't question for some reason, and once we had gotten to the top of the peak we then realized how we were a few miles off trail. The only ways down were the way we came and down the valley of a glacier which was in the direction of the trail. So we started slowly descending down the glacier and after 5 minutes, the sun started to set, which we had forgotten all about. We ended up racing down a glacier for a few hundred feet, literally running, with no clamps or snowshoes, anything, and made it to the middle of the glacier, on level grounds where rocks made a little island in the glacier and set up our tent the fastest I ever have. I still cannot set up the tent faster than I did that night. Also slept well and woke up to sounds of rushing water beneath me.
