Me at the Chinese Wall
Next morning, I woke around 5:30 with nature calling. I got up and let everyone sleep until 7:45. They were all tired from the day before, but we did have a mountain to climb. I think this is a cool shot of the shelters. The shelters weighed only 1-2 pounds each and fit 5 people, so they were ultra lightweight. Too bad we have too many ticks to use them in Virginia.
We learned that this site was just across the stream from a wolf den, because we heard them howling close by each morning between 6am and 7am. Pretty spooky, but we all had bear spray. The valley is a narrow one and even though we couldn’t see them through the trees, they couldn’t have been more than about a quarter mile away. Maye a tenth. Our goal this day is Prairie Reef, the tallest mountain in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The trailhead was easy to miss because a tree had fallen over it and water running under the tree made it look like just a small stream crossing instead of a trail. Be we started up.
It got steeper and rockier as we climbed.
