Day 2
Day two, the first morning waking up in a tent, and late. The alarm didn't go off.
We got out of the tents between 8-9am (I forget) to start up the coffee, scrambled eggs and bacon. An excellent breakfast, although cleaning the grease proved interesting.
Due to some very slow water filtering and all of us just being slow in general, we didn't leave camp until shortly after 12pm (yes, noon), with a goal of catching up from our slow first day and making it to Trio Mountain camp at 26km.
We did the next 6km to Resplendent Creek camp (at ~15km) and <a href="/2006/08_moose/2/IMG_4762.jpg.html">crossed the Resplendent Creek</a> in under 2 hours, a great improvement over the previous day. This was the first and largest crossing of the trip, and proved to be quite simple. The deepest was 2-3" above my knees with a strong but non rapid current. The good conditions allowed some of us to use sandals instead of soaking our boots. The water even seemed warm compared to what I was expecting, although not everyone could agree.
We ate lunch across the river while letting our feet and boots dry. After a long lunch we did not see the trail anywhere in sight (even though there was a shiny marker on either side of our river crossing) so the hiking through <a href="/2006/08_moose/2/IMG_4765.jpg.html">dead and burnt forest</a> began once again. This time the fire seemed to have travelled through quickly compared to the route finding the previous day, leaving less fallen trees and far more green sprouting up through the ash.
We went extremely slow doing 2.5km in 2 hours before meeting up with the trail again. Once on the trail we moved at a reasonable speed doing 3km in less then an hour before deciding to stop at around 8:30pm, a few km short of our goal of the Trio Mountain campsite. 12km (+3 which we appeared to skip via our bushwhacking "shortcut") on the second day, well at least its better then the first day...
We decided to just eat some snacks/a lunch and go to sleep right away so we had no warm dinner or fire t
We got out of the tents between 8-9am (I forget) to start up the coffee, scrambled eggs and bacon. An excellent breakfast, although cleaning the grease proved interesting.
Due to some very slow water filtering and all of us just being slow in general, we didn't leave camp until shortly after 12pm (yes, noon), with a goal of catching up from our slow first day and making it to Trio Mountain camp at 26km.
We did the next 6km to Resplendent Creek camp (at ~15km) and <a href="/2006/08_moose/2/IMG_4762.jpg.html">crossed the Resplendent Creek</a> in under 2 hours, a great improvement over the previous day. This was the first and largest crossing of the trip, and proved to be quite simple. The deepest was 2-3" above my knees with a strong but non rapid current. The good conditions allowed some of us to use sandals instead of soaking our boots. The water even seemed warm compared to what I was expecting, although not everyone could agree.
We ate lunch across the river while letting our feet and boots dry. After a long lunch we did not see the trail anywhere in sight (even though there was a shiny marker on either side of our river crossing) so the hiking through <a href="/2006/08_moose/2/IMG_4765.jpg.html">dead and burnt forest</a> began once again. This time the fire seemed to have travelled through quickly compared to the route finding the previous day, leaving less fallen trees and far more green sprouting up through the ash.
We went extremely slow doing 2.5km in 2 hours before meeting up with the trail again. Once on the trail we moved at a reasonable speed doing 3km in less then an hour before deciding to stop at around 8:30pm, a few km short of our goal of the Trio Mountain campsite. 12km (+3 which we appeared to skip via our bushwhacking "shortcut") on the second day, well at least its better then the first day...
We decided to just eat some snacks/a lunch and go to sleep right away so we had no warm dinner or fire t
