Day 10 part 2... The trail down was on the west side and brutally hot!  Once off the summit, the cool wind stopped and we continued to descend through open, arid, shadeless stretches.  One interesting thing about the hot sun is that it bakes the smells out of the trees and plants.  Some are good, some not so much.  In a few places, it smelled just like someone was baking a huckleberry pie! We reached Turner creek about 3pm and decided to cool off in it - very nice.  Checking the maps, we still had 10 miles to go which included a 1600foot climb during the hottest part of the day and possibly no water until the end.  Yuch!!!  Since we are already a couple days ahead of schedule, we stopped here at Fish Lake for a very short (but strenuous) day. The climb will wait for tomorrow and we will need to do a 25 mile day in order to complete a dry ridge and find water - see a pattern here? I did see a huge owl silently swoop through the trees in front of me, being chased by a small, screeching bird of some kind. Oh, almost forgot, last night in camp around 10 or so, some large animal visited. It crunched out in the brush making a very strange noise, not like a whoof of a bear, more like a horse huffing and more high pitched than I'd expect a bear to sound.  Anyway, we both grabbed our bear spray and waited until our tired eyes took over again.