Summer Summary

Many apologies for the delay in posts. Here are a bunch of pics form the rest of summer and early fall.

--Maggie on a long steep pitch to Canyon Lake in the Bitterroot Mountains
--Blodgett Canyon walls
--Happy Maggie
--Our home for the night: Canyon Lake
--Exploring camp
--Camping games- Pinecone Mancala
--This is what happens if you expose your lower back to the bugs for 30 seconds
--Post-dinner pre-bed
--Teddy begins another journey on our roadtrip through Canada in August
--My first time in Glacier National Park...
--...and we couldn't see anything.
--possibly the best visibility
--Totally metal
--Series of hanging glaciers that feed Lake Louise in Banff NP
--Upper Shore- Lake Louise
--Icefields Highway on way to Jasper NP
--Huge glacial valley
--Now in Jasper
--Giant human covered glacial snout
--Closer up
--Dead ice in a huge moraine
--Sunset in Vancouver
--Back at home, Bango in his favorite place in the world
--Back to the good old Cascades. Rachel Lake.
--Mearns taking a break on Alta Ridge
--High country
--Looking across the ridge with Rainier way in the distance
--Back to Montana, and back in the Bitterroots (late August)
--Dan admiring our view form camp at Little Rock Creek Lake
--After the wet hike in
--we set up camp on a giant granite slab near this alpine marsh
--Post-dinner, pre-bed
--Fall colors in Missoula
--Icy puddle in the Rattlesnake wilderness
--Introducing........Noah!!!
--He is loved
--This was October 13th! An early snow came through and shattered low temp records. I think it got around 5 below zero wind chills.
--So we hiked up Chapaaqin Peak.
--We didnt make it to the top because of this impossible boulder field covered in soft snow.

That is a short and cheap summary of the past few months. There is a ton more to share, but I got lazy. I will try to post more regularly.