We followed the cairns down until they finally petered out, but we just kept bearing SW through fairly open forest (Here we are coming upon a meadow along the way) till we hit the Pyramid Mtn Trail between Buck Camp and Grouse Pass.

Buck Camp was full with a horse party.  From there on we finally saw the Labor Day crowds.  We followed the trail down the junction with the SF Pyramid Cr Trail and took it out to the NF Entiat trailhead.

A couple of day hikers came in and parked as we were packing up the Gray Ghost and shared a watermelon with us, which was a great treat after a long dusty valley pound.

It was almost as good as the steak dinner we had at the Kennedy Meadows Resort and Pack Station which was literally at the end of the trail for our Emigrant Wilderness hike to the Sierra Nevada in 2006.