Every day had snow climbs up to the cols. We were always picturing what the skiing would be like.
Mike joined us this morning at Ron's. Took Ron's diesel SUV which Monique drove back home. A few wrong turns on the highway before we found the right road. I think it started out as the same one I took with Dawn and Mark years ago when we camped by the lake. Today we drove on a pretty rough road which I feared my car wouldn't make it up but all OK to the Shannon Lake trailhead. A father and son and daughter (?) arrived shortly after us. They were just up to Shannon Lake for the day. It was very hot, sunny day and we were all sweating pretty heavily. Bushy trail to Shannon Lake and trail around scree to the "upper" Shannon Lake. Snow climb above that then easy scramble down to the lake we are staying at. Other than one very old fire ring no evidence of any one here. We arrived around 2:00 pm so it was a short day as expected. Swampy in places but it has enough shade. Almost 5:00 pm now so thinking about dinner. The tree (Ron, Joe and Mike) are sharing an MSR white gas stove that leaked. Luckily they cooked over a fire and then got the stove working. Not sure how long we would last with 5 of us on mine and Dennis' compressed fuel. At about 7 the sun dipped behind the ridge and the mosquitoes cam out. After some of Joe's 10 y.o. Bowmore we all climbed inside our tests to get away from the mosquitoes.
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