Mile 21.2- Atop Mount Bond (6 pm) Why are these guys smiling?

Could it be that at 4700 feet  and on a ridge smack in the middle of the Pemi Wilderness, Mount Bond offers the best views east to the Presidential and west to Franconia Ridge - delicious long range vistas in the late afternoon light?
Or could it just be delirium - that after 12 hours and with still a third of the trip to go they just didn't care about hiking in the dark?
Regardless - Hi Colette and Rachel - we are thinking of you.

Looking north toward Mount Garfield and South Twin - did it really take six hours for us to get from here to there?

Like the back of a reptile. the ridge leads down from Mount Bond over the Bond Cliffs and down to the valley.

 Thanks to Rachel - our photoshop wizard - here is what you see from the top of Bond. Way cool. (click on image to get bigger view)