So much for the easy grades and switch backs of the first 6 segments. The first 8 miles of Segment 7 kicked my butt. I should have known how difficult it was going to be by the lack of mountain bikers. My legs were screaming. No way was I going to make it up and over Ten Mile Range before the storms blew in for the day. Not going to chance getting stuck above treeline with lighting again. So, I threw in the towel at mile 6, the last water source before treeline, and set up camp at noon. Whiled away the day reading and studying some programming stuff.