I forgot, but Glenn's post reminded me, that if Hysson hadn't gotten sick, my trip itinerary would have put me at ~11,000 feet just in time for a storm with fairly substantial snowfall! (This was mid-August, but such events are not rare at that altitude.) While I was equipped for it, I would probably have been two days behind schedule, so I'd have had to abort the rest of the trip (to Titcomb and Indian Basins) and hike out.

So Hysson's illness turned out to be a good thing!