facebook posts from 2016 / 06 / 25

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   Most of the ascent and descent was on narrow switchbacks with a rock wall to one side and a 50-100’+ cliff to the other.

   

   Lots of water falls!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   The hike we DNC’d.

   

   Logan’s Pass is an easy boardwalk ascent up 1.5 miles around a crag with a much more steep descent on the far side to a lake. We talked ourseles into following the yellow posts up the bunny slope about 3/4 of a mile.

   

   Until the wind gusted hard enough to almost knock us over.

   

   and then the simple way back which had been clear was obscured entirely by a very hard gust pushing a cloud over the ridge. So we noped our way back.

   

   View from the Continental Devide at Logan’s Pass.

   

   The view back up past the Continental Divide to the kind of cloud we’d just been lost in on the Logan’s Pass hike.

   

   

   

   

   

   If you have water on the lens, artsy fartsy Tv 1/6 shots will capture it marvelously and artfully.

   

   

   

   

   A distant valley falls, ~300’ high?

   

   One of two short tunnels on the road to the sun.

   

   Fire evidence.

   

   Grandure, again, sun blinding off the lake and sky.

   

   

   

   

2. Our encounter with a momma Grizzly bear and her two cubs on Swan Lake Meadows.

3. A buncha bison clopping along, onto, and off the road, encircling two calves. These jerks caused a 30 minute dead-stop traffic jam while they decided where to go.

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   A few black bears on the hillside.

   

   

   The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

   

   The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

   

   The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

   

   Undine Falls, from the top

   

   Undine Falls, from the trail

   

   Undine Falls, from the trail

   

   A chopper airlifing something out, southeast of Mammoth

   

   What the chopper was lifing: two people!

   

   

   Elk chilling where the chopper had just rescued someone.

   

   An Elk in the grass by a parking lot in Mammoth

   

   River views from Swan Lake Meadows

   

   A dumb bird we walked past a few times in Swan Lake Meadows, and the last photo in the set before my camera battery died, the rest are phone shots.

   

   After 3.5 miles of Swan Lake Meadows, we were ready for the hard part: a scenic flat mile of trail and then an 800 foot descent over technical switchbacks into Sheepeater Canyon.

   

   Sheepeater Canyon, from the top.

   

   The 150 foot Osprey Falls, at the bottom of Sheepeater Canyon.

   

   The 150 foot Osprey Falls, at the bottom of Sheepeater Canyon.

   

   We’d seen this at the trailhead but continued on.

   

   Because we were a foursome.

   

   We encountered the Grizzly and her two cubs! Video to follow!

   

   Old Faithful.

   

   

   

5. Us getting the heck away from old Faithful after Old faithful’s jerk mostquitos had taken a pint of blood from each of us.

6. At Undine Falls.