There's no way I'm going to depend on this clothes line to get safely across the creek. The last time I was here was April 18, 2014, when there was no clothes line, tempting me to tip toe through the creek itself. I got two hot feet and had to take my boots off and wring out my socks and empty out my boots. I didn't have gaiters at the time. Today I had them but didn't want to take the chance that they would hold back the water so I turned around at this point, after hiking five miles over a period of about 5 1/2 hours. It would take me over 3 hours to hike back to the car and it would be after sundown by the time I got back.