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Chilcotin September 2008
Day 2 - Graveyard - Elbow Pass - September 5, 2008

Words by Lee Lau. Photos by, Sharon Bader and Rob McLachlan unless otherwise noted.


|| Day 1 - Little Paradise - Manson - Tyoax || Day 2 - Graveyard - Elbow Pass || Day 3 - Graveyard - Elbow - Lorna - Tyax - Deer Pass - Spruce Lake || Day 4 - Spruce Lake - Windy Pass - LS Bluffs - Lick Creek - Gun Creek ||

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I'll be brief. On our second day it rained a lot and showed us why Sharon always jokes that Chilcotin means "Wet Feet". We scrubbed our plans to do alpine traverses. While the rest of the group hiked around camp Rob, Monte, Iori and I went up Little Graveyard, down Elbow and then back to Graveyard Camp. The beauty of this setup is coming back to a toasty fire and lots of good food - very necessary for drying out soaked gear. We covered about 26kms and climbed 1100m today.


Iori and Monte heading up Graveyard Creek towards a very gray looking alpine.


Pushing up to Elbow Pass - Rob leads the way


Elbow Pass had high moisture content and I was grateful for goretex socks


Iori heads down Elbow Pass to Big Creek


Monte descending Elbow Pass heading W


Inevitability of wet feet at Big Creek


... and once you're wet, you can't get much wetter


 

People were kind and left me seconds and thirds and fourths of pecan pie and barbequed chicken


A raging fire dries all


Bikes and horses all love the warmth


Warren taking care of shoeing duties during a camp day


Tarps kept the kitchen and food area dry. SLWA has this down to a science


More food..... mmmmmm


Our friendly porters


Our route today


Covered approx. 25km, 650m elevation


 

 


|| Day 1 - Little Paradise - Manson - Tyoax || Day 2 - Graveyard - Elbow Pass || Day 3 - Graveyard - Elbow - Lorna - Tyax - Deer Pass - Spruce Lake || Day 4 - Spruce Lake - Windy Pass - LS Bluffs - Lick Creek - Gun Creek ||

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