We got crushed by a lightning and rain storm as soon as we crested Texas pass. It poured for the next six hours. Our kit got totally soaked (bad prep on our part) so we had to just power through all the way from Shadow Lake up over Texas and down past Big Sandy Lake to the trailhead. My daughter was a beast. She was 19 and it was her first backpacking trip. Luckily, we had enough good parts of the trip that she went out again with me a few weeks later.