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.