Day 3

It never stopped raining all night! Slept in tent till 11am waiting it out. Finally stopped a bit so we had breakfast (Apple Bannock and granola, yum!). The sun broke thru a little bit and we dried our stuff out pretty successfully but the boots were a bit soggy still, I think they might be forever.

Decided to go on a day hike and leave the tent where it was due to Mark's pack situation. It drizzled through the start of the hike but then cleared off beautifully! We followed Glacier Creek at a contour of about 500 feet off the stream bed which made for a lot of up and down into each drainage valley. The drainage valleys were dense with brush which is why we were quite surprised when I spotted a very large blond Grizzly just as we were about to go into a creekbed. It was about 150 yards away in the brush having a lovely lunch on some berries. We slowly made our way up the other side of the creek bed wall making some noise "HEY BEAR!". It was pretty neato.


We followed the river further and the clouds lifted a bit for great views of Muldrow Glacier and the surrounding mountains.

We stopped for lunch (Hummus and cheese roll ups) and decided to head back, we are not sure about the exact spot we turned around...Mark and I had differing opinions on where exactly we were on the map...oh well.

On the way back we took a higher contour and ridgeline up to Green Point (elev. 4235) which had great views of the area and we could even look down on our tent site. The picture is of Mark on top of the Geologic Survey Rock on top of Green Point Yummy macaroni and cheese for dinner then to our tent for Pass the Pigs and getting dry and warm :)