We called off the trip early. In short, I was over ambitious planning for 8 days. The pack weight of nearly 40lbs (necessary for 8 days) was way too heavy. We think we could have done Mt. Lyell if we had planned for only 3 nights not 7 and the pack weight was down around 20lbs. The massive amounts of mosquitos at our planned base camp precluded us staying the remaining 5 days and ‘laying siege’ to Lyell. We decide to hike the 12 miles back out we just came in the night before and find a less streanous way to spend our anniversary. We had fun anyway, and Im glad we tried. Lessons learned.
