Your basic alpine out and back. Weather was nice and cool; berries plentiful and trail was steep! Approx 1600m of climbing
About 780m
Rock slabs to start the day
Then we go up
Up up and away
Subalpine lake – picking berries for her!
More up. Some of us ditched bikes and just hiked
About 1400m or so
It seems all we do is push our bikes uphill
Viewpoint at about 1480m looking onto Mt Baker from Mt Gardner
Lets switch up the views
Meslilloeet Glacier from Mt Gardner
More views please
Show-off
Moon over the Lions
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Then up to the final ridgeline of Mt Gardner looking onto Mt Baker
More posing
Posing is never done
Steve
Andy
Chris
Chris
Generic gorgeous alpine tarn
Yet one more final pose
Ah – Mt Harvey is gorgeous
Trundling rock onto tourists below
What – more posing?
Now we go down
Pretty tech rock with loose run outs
If you fall you’ll cheese grater
Solution is to not fall
Don’t fall!
and don’t get distracted by the view of Horseshoe Bay
No fall zone
Generic reflecting lake shot
Descent is a steep chunder fest in some spots
Steep loam in spots
Loam is so steep
If you fall you’d just buttslide