WIND RIVERS (pre summit)

so these are random pics from hiking and backpacking, all pre-summit... summit stuff and the rest will come later.
parking lot before we began our adventure in the winds.

me and my hiking buddy for the first day... look at those bmw's (burly mountain women)


sweet looking clouds!
photagrapher's point is the name of this little lookout... anyone know why?
water filtering happened soooo much on this trip...

one of our many concoctions we had for food... rice with almonds, tuna, and cranberries.

we did two barefoot river crossings in one day... incredible experience!!!

we ended up just stopping here on one of our days and decided to make camp... and then...



we washed our hair in the lake... quite the experience.

this is me enjoying some of my free time... gotta love the self timer.

this is the blood sucking varmint that is responsible for the 20+ bites i recieved, half of which were on my feet... the worst place.

i have always wanted to catch a reflection picture... and boy did i get it or what???

this is a pick of lester pass... going up lester pass was the hardest thing physically that we had to do (with our pack on... the summit is a whole other thing). anyway, it gets you huffin and puffin pretty good... at one point you could stick your hand out and touch the trail in front of you, thats how steep. but once you reach the top...

look at that amazing view....

i love trail signs.

this is island lake... sweet lake, i must say.

look at those skies... isn't that incredible???