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| Before. |
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| I had to put a bandaid on my foot to prevent a blister. |
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| Ellen made a dirt face. |
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| Perfect blister-free combination for a moment. |
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| Made it to the meadow! |
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| We set up camp at Henry's lake, which is about 8 miles in. It's basically flat so it's not a hard hike, just long when you're wearing a pack. But the bushwhacking at the end is always exciting, especially when you run into logs you would not have been able to see from one foot away. or 2 out of 4 people just disappear down into the bushes because they've fallen into unforeseeable rivers. |
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| enjoying the sunset on our first night at camp |
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| I heart this picture. |
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| "Hey boys." I still don't understand why, but she could not hold this pose for more than literally 2 seconds at a time and it was pretty hard to get a good picture. |
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| oh. mah. goodness. Golden Sky. uh-may-zing. |
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| cousins! |
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| breakfast in bed (hot cereal and hot cocoa...mmm) |
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| right after sunrise on the morning we hiked to the peak |
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| got a swirly? or slept with a hat on? who knows. |
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| The bottom of ...dun dun dun...."the chute. "This picture will never do it justice. The angle looks all wrong and the top that you see, is not the top. I can't even explain it. |
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| view looking out at the tundra (?) from the bottom of the chute. It is so pretty out there! |
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| And... Voila! We're at the top of King's! Just that easy, just that quick. not. |
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| Runners and primary-song-singers and wait-for-my-parents-for-2-hours and it's-my-50th-birthday fellow peakers. |
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| The "trail" from the top of the peak, which goes down into a basin type thing. This part was a cinch to climb up after the chute. it's not near as steep. I loved climbing over all the boulders instead of just hiking, it was way fun and different than normal hiking. |
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| so once you get down from the "trail" in that previous picture and walk a tiny ways through the basin you get to the top of the chute. when i took that first picture of this from the bottom, we were maybe a half inch (picture measurements, not real life measurements) away from that lake. This picture does a little more justice and lets you see how steep it is. Oddly enough, I like hiking up this better than hiking down. Our campsite is over by one of those 3 far lakes you see. |
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| our favorite chute |
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| Temperature control (down sleeping bag on head in sun-warmed tent, feet outside) |
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| Those lawn chairs were the best idea ever. He could have sold them to us for $100 bucks and we would have done it. |
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| Who's socks are that clean- after an 8 hour hike, no less. seriously. |
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| Our campsite was invading the sheep grazing fields. Don't worry, if you "ruff" at them they will run away quicker than you can blink your eye. |
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| deformed shoulder blade. |
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| keeps your: ears warm, hat on, and your jaw warm. |
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| I love it here. So I danced. (also. notice my "cute" outfit on this day. I even matched, imagine that.) |
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| seasoned travellers. |
