And look where Spot No 7 has him
I had to use the rocket pack to get to #7 and back......
pleasant little trip. Made the decision to come back today last night. Knee was bothering me a bit last night and I didn't want to push it. Today, no problems with the knee...go figure. To the trip report...
Wildlife was very thin this trip. No mountain lions, no bears...I did see one moose though. Ran into Laura down at the visitor center. We chatted a bit and then it was time to go.
Leisurely trip up the trail. Set up camp at LPL and had dinner. One of my main purposes for this trip was to try out my new fly fishing rod. I've never used a fly rod before and I figured that I should prove it out before I did my OV to MTW trip in August. I got up early and fished all the way around LPL. Caught a bunch of golden, rainbow and I think a little brookie too. I released all of them.
Around 11am I headed back to camp to start packing up. It started sprinkling a bit....and then the sky opened up and dumped a torrent of rain and hail. The thunder was echoing off the mountains. It was really cool. However, it made packing difficult. I barely got all of my stuff inside the tent before the deluge, but I got enough in that I could start packing. Finally there was a break in the weather and I only had the tent to go....I jumped out of the tent and started packing up the tent. It was still sprinkling, but no big deal. Still lots of thunder and then a little bit past the log crossing it started raining and hailing again. It did this on and off the whole way down. It was pretty cool.
The fish and the rain/hail are the big stories of the trip. I hope that Laura was able to get over trail crest before the weather moved in. It would suck to start out a two week trip soaking wet.
