Episode 3: is the sun ever going to shine?
The night has been cold at Upper Mill Basin, but we slept very well.
Problem: in the morning, the tent is covered by snow (a thin layer) and it's snowing big fat flakes outside...
As a consequence we kind of skip the breakfast and head to the car (we had to take the rest of the food and go the other side of the valley as planned anyway).
The water I had collected from the river had been spilt on the ground. What happened? Wind? Unstable wate pouch? BEAR?
It's again 2 hours to walk to the car, and it's constantly snowing.
At the car, we turn the heater on and question ourselves. Are we changing our plans? Remember the hotels that looked so cozy down in the valley? etc etc...
A ranger tells us the weather forecast predicts the storm is going to ease on and the sun come back. Ok, let's go, stick to the plan and don't lamely go to the backcountry office to cancel the backcountry trip....
On the parking, we make a new try with the stove. That's it, we really understand how it works now...
So we head up in direction of Andrew's creek. The weather eases for a while, but when we reach the Loch, it's again very grey. it's really time for a warm meal. Trying to get protected from the wind, we're now fuel stove masters. Even a fat bird wants to have its part of Pasta a la romaine (déshydraté québecois ;-)).
We're very very slow with all this snow and bad weather. When we reach the last intersection before Andrew's creek, the path we need to take has completely vanished under the snow, without any tracks. It's time for us to wear the snowshoes and start a steep hike up along the creek. We're almost there. After a perilous bridge crossing with snowshoes, we find the camp location. It's my first bivouac ever on so deep snow, and Elise's highest bivouac ever (around 3200m). It's even colder than last night.... and the snow doesn't really stop
http://jnster.free.fr/colorado
Problem: in the morning, the tent is covered by snow (a thin layer) and it's snowing big fat flakes outside...
As a consequence we kind of skip the breakfast and head to the car (we had to take the rest of the food and go the other side of the valley as planned anyway).
The water I had collected from the river had been spilt on the ground. What happened? Wind? Unstable wate pouch? BEAR?
It's again 2 hours to walk to the car, and it's constantly snowing.
At the car, we turn the heater on and question ourselves. Are we changing our plans? Remember the hotels that looked so cozy down in the valley? etc etc...
A ranger tells us the weather forecast predicts the storm is going to ease on and the sun come back. Ok, let's go, stick to the plan and don't lamely go to the backcountry office to cancel the backcountry trip....
On the parking, we make a new try with the stove. That's it, we really understand how it works now...
So we head up in direction of Andrew's creek. The weather eases for a while, but when we reach the Loch, it's again very grey. it's really time for a warm meal. Trying to get protected from the wind, we're now fuel stove masters. Even a fat bird wants to have its part of Pasta a la romaine (déshydraté québecois ;-)).
We're very very slow with all this snow and bad weather. When we reach the last intersection before Andrew's creek, the path we need to take has completely vanished under the snow, without any tracks. It's time for us to wear the snowshoes and start a steep hike up along the creek. We're almost there. After a perilous bridge crossing with snowshoes, we find the camp location. It's my first bivouac ever on so deep snow, and Elise's highest bivouac ever (around 3200m). It's even colder than last night.... and the snow doesn't really stop
http://jnster.free.fr/colorado
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