Man! What an epic to get hammered bloody by hailstones and then top out in the dark, especially with your reserves sapped by a bad stomach. That's old school tough.
I still have perfect mental images of so much of the ground you're talking about, and I remember getting chased down from the topout on FotP with a huge storm on our heels that sounds a bit like the one that caught you (no hail, though). Yikes!
Fantastic TR, and glad everyone's okay! |