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With sunset at Mail Spring comes a bit of relief from the day's heat, followed by thousands of stars in a moonless sky

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5348-mail-spring-camp.jpg I arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitThumbnailsOn my way back down Keystone Canyon, I pass a few expiring purple flowers that I've seen before, but can't identifyI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitThumbnailsOn my way back down Keystone Canyon, I pass a few expiring purple flowers that I've seen before, but can't identifyI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitThumbnailsOn my way back down Keystone Canyon, I pass a few expiring purple flowers that I've seen before, but can't identifyI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitThumbnailsOn my way back down Keystone Canyon, I pass a few expiring purple flowers that I've seen before, but can't identifyI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitThumbnailsOn my way back down Keystone Canyon, I pass a few expiring purple flowers that I've seen before, but can't identifyI arrive back at my tent before sundown and rest inside until the sun goes down and things cool off a bitThumbnailsOn my way back down Keystone Canyon, I pass a few expiring purple flowers that I've seen before, but can't identify

After dark, I make Backpacker's Pantry just-add-boiling-water Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry, yummy. My hot drinking water eventually cools down to a more drinkable temperature. Quiet except for a burst of noise that sounds like an owl catching a rodent and a few gusts of wind.