into the wild ................

Monday, August 3, 2009

glaciers everywhere...

found out tiva was part mountain gaotas well. she scaled a few cliffs with to much ease.

this is why i hike, to get to places like this !!!!

getting away!!!!!!!!

i should look tired but i'm not, i just got here 9.7 miles back!!!!

look who's standing right in my way.... i need to go in that direction.

got to climb that...........

sometimes you just got to go... this was almost a 20 mile hike. easily a half day just to get here. but one of the best places i've found to be alone and just think. i'm glad i went!!!!!! this is a place called raven glacier. alpine forest all the way up, untill you get above the tree line. this is deffinately not a place for people who don't know what they're doing. need a good compass and map. out here there's no satelite singnals so a g.p.s. is useless! i'm having to climb up and down this mountain goarge to get to where i was going. the mountains block off everything. i got very lucky because the weather never turned bad. out here the mountains make there own weather, so it's not uncomon for a bad rain storm and wind to kick in. this is a place i found about a 2 hour drive away. just to turn onto a dirt road that ends in the middle of nowhere and turns into a dried creek bed. now you've got to hike if you want to go on.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

you never know what you'll run into.......

caribu in the distance.

i'm glad the bears had no interest in us !!!!!!!

i think my dog is completely nuts! she weighs a wopping 40 pounds but when she see's a bear i swear she's a different dog. she goes nuts. it was a good thing i had her on a leash. and it's a good thing they were interest playing rather then with us. thet were about 25 feet from us.