Tuesday July 30

Almost August and some lakes are still partly frozen

 Up early and fast as bugs are still relentless.  Up the ridge to the north of Mt Meers.  Relatively easy scramble up to the ridge.  We then tried to find a way along the ridge and then the best place to scramble down into the Caribou Creek drainage.  After lots of scrambling and lowering packs on a rope we stopped for drinks and realised that we were in the wrong drainage!  We should have gone over the east ridge and into Nemo Creek.  We did make it to the Nemo Lakes at about 4:00 pm and set up camp.  The climb to the col according to the topo map seemed pretty easy however no one wanted to bush wack the valley bottom so we spent most of the afternoon side hilling and crossing drainages and buttresses.  When we finally made it to the correct drainage the snow slope to the col was pleasant.  The north most lake was still mostly frozen and we camped there.  Having some free time and not much bugs meant we all got to swim or clean up before dinner.  Bugs getting a bit worse after dinner so we are in our tents at 7:00 pm or so.