We waited out the rainstorm in dry comfort. After two hours the rain stopped, we put away the tent and continued up the trail toward the Cirque. Jackass pass, entrance to the Cirque of the Towers. Warbonnet is the peak right of the pass. We crossed Jackass pass and set up camp on a flat grassy spot in the bedrock rib that splits the center of the pass.
Camping is illegal within a quarter mile of the lake in the center of the cirque.
Four other tents filled the upper meadows in the center right of the photo. After we had eaten our raman noodle soup and added boiling water to our freeze dry dinner there was a flash of lightning followed within a second by thunder. Just as we reached the tent a deluge of rain began. No one had brought the dinner to the tent. We listened to the rain pound on the tent and no one volunteered to go out and get the dinner.