calicotraveler wrote:What a great day! Wish I were there.
tibber wrote:me too.calicotraveler wrote:What a great day! Wish I were there.
Great stuff Pete and good job!
netresult wrote:Great pics Pete! Thanks for sharing. Love the Pica pics, they are right behind the mountain lion and wolverine on my list of unseen animals. They know winter is coming to the high country and are feverishly building up their food caches.
Thanks y'all. It turned out to be a fun day.
I like meeting fun, interesting people while out and about.
These particular young folks were a refreshing change from many I've had to deal with in the past.
Maybe it's because they love the outdoors?
Didn't see too many animals probably because it was the heat of the day.
Walked up on this nice big horn ram who had a "junior ram" buddy with him. Junior ran off
Rams are looking nice now that they've shed last years winter coat.
This guy is staring directly at me,"bore sighting" me as a rifleman would say.
This nanny and her baby didn't pay too much attention to me. Mom has finally shed her old winter coat.
I thought this little guy was going to run up my pant leg for a minute. There were lots of these golden mantle squirrels at the summit. They probably get fed a lot since Oberlin is a popular and easy peak to get to.
Another pic looking at the Garden Wall
Normally, I would return the same way I came up--back through the ledges to the saddle with Clements and down.(saddle is over on far right) I like scrambling through the ledges. However, being pressed for time I took the steep(ish) scree route down. I might post a video clip of a portion of that scree descent. It's not fun. The park discourages this route since it contributes to the scarring of the slope.
Here you can see the saddle below Clements and part of the ledges you scramble through on the route up to the summit. The faint trails right of the well worn trail are likely goat trails.
The Glacier Conservancy group as they begin coming down off the saddle.
Long line for the West bound shuttle buses which are the smaller maxi-van type vehicles. The large buses cannot drive the West side alpine road.
There were only about a dozen of us waiting for the East bound Big Bus shuttle.
After seeing that long line of people waiting at the West bound stop, I decided to rearrange all my "stuff" in Jaybird making room for two people.
So I drove back up to the West bound stop and asked if two wanted a ride. It was about 6:45Pm and there was still quite a long line. I had no trouble getting volunteers.
A gal named Carolyn from Littleton CO and Joe, a local from West Glacier. A young couple asked if they could ride in the back and I said OK. I gave them my sissy pads to sit on.
It was a fun drive back down talking to Joe and Carolyn. Joe was really an interesting guy.
He works in the park many years for the U.S. Geological Survey and is very familiar with GNP.
I dropped Joe at his car parked by the BC Office and the other three at their cars at the Apgar Visitor center parking lot.
pete