A week's worth of food stuffed in the bear-proof canister
Island Lake
A couple of hours of easy trail to start
Dorf and Brad
Hiking towards Lonesome Mountain
Becker Lake
Nice spot for Camp 1
Camp 1
The "Walking Taco" turned out to be my favorite dinner!
Albino Lake, and off-trail
Lonesome Mt and Albino Lk
Ward checking the maps
Heading to the pass
Jasper Lake and Beartooth's High Country
Golden Lake
Still winter up here!
Crossing the outlet of Jasper Lk
Looking back at Lonesome Mt
Unnamed Lake
A good spot for lunch...
Lunch break in the view of Lonesome Mt
Hope you like boulder hopping...
When you are walking on snow, it sucks to be the biggest guy in the group!
Approaching Two Bits Lk and Triskele Lk
Sighting "Dorf's Pass". We ditched this crazy idea and picked a route that was probably even more insane...
Camp 2 - Triskele Lake
Very windy - we found some protection behind this rock wall
Dorf demonstrating the art of the "Spam and Cheese Melt"
Ward filtering water
Hanging food off a cliff to keep it from bears
Smoke from nearby forest fires
Ward and Dorf decide we should look for High Pass
Beartooth High Country
A frosty morning
Triskele Lk
Heading up to Donelson Lk
More rock hopping...
...and more snow walking
Winter in August
Maryott Lake
Walking on snowpack
Wildflowers
Nice day!!
Gotta head west...
Now it gets interesting
"You want Epic?! Follow me!!"
Beartooth's High Country
Looking down to Plaeiades Lakes
Climbing down
Turned out that I had a daily craving for PB and pretzels for lunch
Heading towards Flat Rock Lake
Deer sighting
Nice view - let's stay here!
Camp 3 - Flat Rock Lake, 10000 ft.
Dorf's Spam recipe #147: Spam, cheese, and stuffing
BBQ chicken and rice for dinner
Some genious said: "I've got an idea - let's climb another 500 ft of waterfall this morning..."
Oh, yeah - let's jump right in there...
Copepod Lake
Cladocera Lake
Climbing towards a pass just short of 11,000 ft
Unnamed lake at 10,800 ft
Oops - our pass is plugged with a 100' wall of snow...
Plan B: down to Hermit Lake
Hermit Lake
Approaching Big Butte Lake
Dorf checking the maps...
Ward checking the back of his eyelids...
more wildflowers
Camp 4 - Anchor Lake
Panic - "I hope I have more Spam in my food bag!!"
"Protect the Spam" - hanging food from cliff
Morning at Anchor Lake
Heading to Jordan Lk
Jordan Lake
Lake Elaine
A bit of trail today... what a concept!
Sierra Creek
Heaven
"Not another stinkin' waterfall..."
Camp 5 - Alp Lake
more waterfalls...
Crystal Lake
Another "easy day" in "boulder-hell".... (find Dorf in there!)
"that rock had to go"
best backpacking around - the Beartooth's rock!
down to Golden Lk
Camp 6 - Golden Lk
Nice "Kitchen Rock"
What - no Spam in there, Dorf?!
My dinner - no Spam allowed
view from my house
We almost got cliffed out in here... had a bit of hands-and-feet climbing to get out of this gorge
Day 7 - day of the "wildflower explosion"
Looking towards Yellowstone
Day of the "wildflower explosion"
Today the wedding band went AWOL... oh, shit!!
Day 8 - up at 6am, hopped on the trail / horse highway and raced out for omelettes in town.
Certified "hiker trash": Ward, Dorf, Brad
