Absaroka

[hkpierce]

Loading up the van with gear for 19 scouts/ers, food for a week on the trail, and lots of bear spray:



Filled from the back doors to the back of the 2nd row of seats and to the ceiling:



The hiking crews

 

[hkpierce]

The van was positioned for resupplying both crews:


Columbine Pass looking west into the Absaroka:


Columbine Pass looking east into the Beartooth. Note snowball fight on the far right...



Jordan Pass



Final camp site - Lake Horseshoe



More pictures

 

[glasseye]

Gorgeous and timely. Thanks! I'm headed back to Beartooth next week.

 

[yellowmike]

Oh Man do I envy you. I'm stuck here in hot humid flat Illinois for the rest of the summer. Have a great time and enjoy the mountains and please take a big gulp of that mountain air for me please

 

[hkpierce]

The second crew staged the van at Box Canyon while the first crew (with me) started from Slough Creek Trail head in Yellowstone National Park. When we finished the hike, I found a cryptic note that they noticed fuel was low - and best wishes on getting out.

Indeed, the low fuel light was on from the moment I turned the key. 40 miles to the closest station. After 22 miles of 20 MPH on a rough dirt road, then 45 MPH on a good road to optimize mpg (and a 2000 foot drop in elevation), we arrived at a diesel OASIS in Big Timber


5 (FIVE) diesel options (3 shown):
#1 15 ppm Highway
#1 15 ppm dyed
#2 15 ppm Highway
#2 15 ppm dyed
#2 500 ppm dyed

I put in 26.7 gallons.

And the temperature rose from 75 at Box Canyon to 101 at Big Timber

 

[glasseye]

...
I put in 26.7 gallons.

YIKES!

 

[hkpierce]

Another successful Absaroka High Adventure for my Scout Crew and van (as Philmont closed for this year due to fire) (but without me)

 

[Old Crows]

Is that a bear climbing that tree?????????

 

[hkpierce]

Is that a bear climbing that tree?????????

No - just a growth