The weather report was for partly sunny, which must have meant the chance of sunshine was part way between fantasy and imaginary. Note, I did not process the following picture to make it black and white. The grey skies did that for me.
But we headed up to the pass anyway and the snow is still deep. How deep you say, here is Jim climbing up a snow bank. They were eight to ten feet deep along the stream. And that is at about 3800 feet of elevation. There will be snow in the back country for a while.
Here we are heading into the partly sunny at the entrance to the basin.
The sunshine did allow us to photograph the rare and elusive Douglas fir shadow.
And the stream bed is very pretty when the sun shines on it .
We ran across some young people who had set up a winter camp. They should wake up to a beautiful sunny morning on Sunday. They also invited us to use the great slide that they had made behind the tents. You can see it to the left of the broken off trees with the snow piled on top. As you can tell from their short shirt sleeves, the weather was quite warm. Well, it was warm for a winter campout.
There was some avalanche debris beside the trail. Those snow blocks are about fie feet high, but it didn’t seem wise to stand beside them just to add scale for comparison.
But a slice of hot pizza and a drink at the end of the day made it a great trip.
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