From the camp near Dome Peak, there is over 12 miles of trail to the cars left at the south end of the traverse. The warm weather was melting snow so the streams were very high and we had heard horror stories of the number of stream crossings needed. We decided to take two days for the trip out to give us time to deal with the difficulties and get to the cars in time to drive back 3 hours (the way back being very indirect) to the north end to pick up the cars left there. Fortunately we got advice from people who were on their way in and were able to limit our difficulties to wading one stream barefoot, crossing another on a log using our crampons and doing a bit of bush whacking to avoid two crossings.