Even if the sun wasn’t going to take a break, my body needed to. We had 5 more miles of hiking, and 16 more river miles to go, but we were done. What suppose to be a day trip, which we decided to overnight, was about to get an extra day tack onto it. Thankfully, there was enough trail mix and snickers to sustain us through the extra day and the fact that we had failed to bring any fuel for our stove.
The trip report for the Coffee-Pizza traverse was from earlier in the season, which meant a lower snow line. Which meant not having to ascend and descend 600 ft in a saddle with life threatening sized boulders which shifted under our weight. So, that was kind of scary. But how often do you actually get to have snickers for dinner at the top of a mountain pass?
At the bottom of the other side of the saddle we finally set up camp. The only problem was we did not have a tent… and it was about to rain, so sleeping outside was not an option. Thankfully, there were a few extra tarps. And even though we were above tree line there was a glacial erratic that looked like we could use to help set up our shelters. Come to find out, this boulder was also home to a number of tundra dogs (ground squirrels), by their constant vocalization. No worries dog, we’ll be out of your tundra in the morn.
There were a few caribou sheds in the area we set up camp. It became apparent the next morning this is where a caribou that had gotten killed. It gave us a little haste in our steps and made us very thankful the barking tundra dogs were the only thing we had encountered the previous night.
P.S.
Caitlin and I are the best at getting our pictures taken together.
for my friends who are moms 