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It didn't rain last night and this morning was mostly clear and sunny.  Now that I would be heading back, I was much less enthusiastic.  I was also a little disappointed not to have found any rock art.  It would be slow and tedious, and a bit longer than Day 2 because I needed to return to my cache location at the bottom of the Kanab Point Trail.

I started out with only about one liter of water.  Although I wasn't trying to follow the exact same route I used two days earlier, I kept running into my old tracks.  I passed a couple of potholes early in the morning, then nothing for quite a while.  I figured I could always get water at the small pothole in the main arm of Scotty's, where I got it two days ago, above the chockstone blocking easy access to larger potholes below.  When I got there the small pothole was dry.  I didn't want to risk climbing down to the large potholes, so I continued on.  By the time I came across another pothole, I was almost back at camp.  Thankfully it was cool and I wasn't consuming much water.