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Another evening meadow picture. |
| This is a picture of the Cirque on Thursday morning before we headed out.
Our original plans were to leave Lizard Head Meadows by way of the Lizard Head
Trail and head up to the Valentine Lake area. HOWEVER, at the trail junction was a
sign stating that "This trail is unsafe for livestock". So, after weeks of
picking a route to the best places, we had to change plans. |
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We decided to go to over the High Meadow Trail toward Smith Lake. We
knew that this was going to be a fairly steep trail but we could not have known how rocky
it was. On top of this, there was a large tree down that we had to remove before we
could continue. Unfortunately the saw had been packed in the bottom of the wrong
pannier. This meant that we unpacked all four panniers before we finally found the
saw and then had to cut both trunks of the tree. |
| So, we finally make it to Smith Lake. Smith Lake is a very pretty
lake set into a step glacially carved canyon. This makes for beauty but not for open
grazing area for the horses. We proceeded to turn around and head for the last
meadow that we had passed, one and a half miles back. We did get to see this bull
moose on the way back though. |
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Friday was spent around camp and fishing. It wasn't the best camp
site since we couldn't get as far off of the trail as we would have liked. But, it was
home. |
