Steep. If I had to pick one word to describe this hike, it would be "steep." It's also gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, incredible... the Toiyabe range deserves plenty of superlatives. But I think most people would agree that "steep" is pretty objective. This was my second time here, as we had been thwarted by weather almost exactly a week before. But since weather definitely thwarted our Shasta plans even harder (70mph sustained and 100mph gusts? NO THANK YOU MA'AM SIR), we headed back up to the Toiyabe range and got Arc Dome the day before and then took on Bunker as a "recovery" hike. You know, as "recovery" as ~3600' gain is, when it's this steep. So, it wasn't fast. We plodded. Well, *I* plodded. Sniveled a bit because I was tired and sore. But we kept moving upward. And then... like a bad memory, like deja vu in the worst way, rain rolled in. And hail. And we ended up bundled up in two rain layers. We finally made almost-the-summit... took the bait and lure of the first bump... had to climb back down, and then hid from the howling wind driving the rain and hail behind whatever that building was near the solar panels. Ate lunch while mostly sheltered from the worst of the wind. Then, when the clouds broke, made a dash (well, okay, plodding dash on my part, I was tired and demoralized) for the actual summit on the second bump. Made it, got it, couldn't find a summit register, took a selfie, and then headed back to try to get off of the summit before the next squall of rain and snow blew in. That being said, it wasn't nearly to the level of the week before; it was annoying wind, but we could still hear each other speak, and it wasn't anywhere near powerful enough to knock us off balance or blow us over. It was just annoying weather, and that's okay. Slow going down the summit ridgeline, and faster going from there on down. This is a quick-ish hike on the way down, mostly it's about keeping your balance as you just go further and further down with every step. I was very proud of myself for getting this after Arc Dome (et al), and feel like I may have a chance at Rainier after all. With more training and more pushing, of course.