Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Day 17 - Sandbeach Lake, and partway to Mt. Orton

10.5 miles  3000 feet gain

Dad, Melissa, Laura, Miranda, Tyler, Maria, Sarah, Alena

Kind of a scouting mission for doing Chiefs Head and Mt. Alice.  Had to make our way thru .3 mile of bushwacking and then another .4 mile up open tundra.  You get awesome views of the south side of Longs.

Interviewing the mountain man while hiking

Photographer

Break

SandBeach Lake - rare in rmnp



Bushwack 
Break thru the trees and start to climb




south side of longs and meeker

Lunch


Head back into the woods


Back to the lake

Deep Discussion about something


golden arches


Beans left us these treats