Campsite over Herd drainage, Devil's Range in background
Everyone was up early so we were on our way just after 7:00 as we changed from bug clothes to hiking clothes and DEET. I have had the same bottle for years and just emptied it this morning. We wasted hours this morning climbing up and along the wrong ridge before figuring out that we had to hike down and climb a different ridge. The N-S ridge we wanted was too difficult so we scrambled and bush wacked down to Ice Creek. We tried bush wacking up the drainage luckily found the Ice Creek Lodge trail. Glorious. We hiked to the Lodge and a thunderstorm approached in the distance. The lodge was closed but all the other buildings were open. We stayed about an hour and only a few drops of rain fell. I was worried that we were too far east to get to the Herd Lakes but the trail continued to the alpine and an easy slog up to the col on snow was done by 6:00 pm. We scoped out the terrain, Herd Lake(s), Devils Range, our exit tomorrow.... We decided to camp at the col as the weather looked favourable and the bugs were almost bearable. Awesome campsite overlooking the Herd drainage. Great idea to stay here. Tomorrow we will hike to meet the car pickup and then all get out together. Luckily we all packed for six days however Dennis only packed for 4 days plus extra. We will have to share what we can with him.
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