Day Hike #4: Up the Mountain, Straight, No Chaser

Woke up during the night to hear rain on the tent.  Thought about getting up to put my almost dry laundry in the tent, but was too lazy.  When I got up a couple of hours later, it was dry anyway!  Just like Arizona or Utah and here we are above the Arctic Circle.

Joey entertained us at breakfast with a pancake "style cooking" treat.  What talent!  It's not easy to make pancakes in a pot.

Our last day at basecamp, we had decided to climb the ridge behind us - just to give us another perspective or where we had been the three days before.  It was a direct walk up 1800 vertical feet just behind camp.  It was worth it.

Ashley took a bit of a nap after lunch.  The Brooks Range extends off to the east.









 When I turned the camera around the other way, here was the view.  Cameras, or maybe this photographer, can't give it the true impact it has when you're there.