lick dale to Schubert gap

big climb to start day, lunch at William penn shelter pogono and Kickapoo again. Bacondog rolled in, as did patch. we all met up again at 501 shelter as

it was at a road crossing. I ate dinner, bacon dog and patch ordered a pizza and met the driver on the road. isn't black, bear juice ryan, bear bag, shortstop , pogono Kickapoo Az all filed in. bacon dog and I hiked up the trail about 5 miles after dinner. the trail was a tire drill, it took 3 hours to get there. tented on a slope and it poured on us, my tent got a 3 inch puddle in the bottom of the foot area. ugh. bacon dog rolled in about 9 pm. he looked spent.