Day Hike #3: To the Right

Each day, as we shouldered our daypacks and trudged off into the distance, we walked backward through Spring.  With the 24 hours of light and most of that with direct sunlight (the only time we didn't have direct sunlight was when the sun went blessedly behind the mountain to the north of us), the plants grew fast at basecamp.  But as we climbed higher in altitude, the plants would have fewer and fewer leaves until they had no leaves and might be just emerged from the snow.

This was accentuated by the fact that as we climbed, the gouging of the glaciers was so "new" and much of the rock so bare and steep, that plants were not established yet.

We walked up the right tributary of Arrigetch Creek today.  The walking was great and we actually felt like we were going somewhere fast.

The creek was slower moving than farther down near basecamp and was clear and cold.  There is something about cold clear streams that I love, and this one was pretty with the occasional reflections of the mountains surrounding it.

 


The mountain on our left was so high, it blocked the sun for awhile.

We walked back into the bowl on the left where there were multiple glaciers hanging on the mountains. 

After walking back into the bowl, our little group couldn't let well enough alone, so we decided to climb a mountain that had a rushing stream with a pretty good waterfall coming out of it.

Here comes Bob.  

It got fairly steep for awhile.  You can see the nice ridge on the opposite side that blocked the sun earlier in the day.

Joey and I decided to walk up to see if we could see a small lake that was supposed to be up at the end of the bowl.

On the way back, he did some rock climbing on a "little" boulder.