Beehive Basin Hike

Before I begin, I just want to mention I'm going to begin doing something a little different.  In the past I've treated this blog as a series of random events in my life.  My goal from this point forward is to try to tie the posts together a LITTLE more.  

And on that note!

Following my departure from Alaska, I safely arrived in Big Sky, Montana for a CLIC conference.  I was there both for a wilderness medicine conference happening on the second day, and to visit my dad who was presenting at the conference.

(^and this is how I'm probably going to do it.  Just a little colored story of what's been up.)

Fortunately, when we weren't at the conference, we had time to check out the Beehive Basin Trail!

 A picture of a trailhead. Because Reasons!

There's a chance you might be thinking: "Do these pictures look... better than Chris' other pictures?"

If you were thinking that, you'd be right!  This is the first post where I started shooting with the Canon SX50! (aka better camera)

 Views weren't too shabby...

 The North Carolina CLIC (and hiking) Team!

Water and Mountains.  Can't go wrong... 

Lone Mountain looming in the distance 

 Love me some lookouts!

And then we continued hiking...

The views were surreal 

 Me and my Pops!

I couldn't get over how good the mountains looked...

Looking down the valley we hiked up 

And after about 3 miles of hiking, we arrived at the lake!

Or pond, but whatever

(Try clicking it, I dare you.  Actually, I double dare you!)

Normal picture...

AND GOOFY PIC!

And after taking it all in...

We took it in a little more...

And eventually...

We headed back down

And we saw this guy on the way down!

 Wildlife shot!

And thus concluded the adventure...

 And we met another hiker who joined us for the hike down!

And then we headed back to the hotel, ate some grub, and got ready for the Wilderness Medicine clinic the next day!  A (single) pic of that and another awesome hike are coming in the next post! Get stoked!

Enjoy!

Chris

The Private Rock Trip

This summer I primarily worked as a rock and zip line guide, but our company actually does do private tours all over the world.  Fortunately, near the end of the season I got to shadow one of those trips!

This trip involved helping a client come out to Alaska and climb!

We started out climbing at our crag near the zip lines...

 Top Roping like a Boss!

And then headed up to the Upper Site...

And got some quality pics along the way!

Looking down the valley

And up at the Upper Crag 

And back down the valley

And the Train!

And then we headed down to the main crag and did a little more climbing...

And that's a trip!

Enjoy

Chris

Climbing No Name Mountain

So I got a day off...

 So I decided to here...

Aka Upper Dewey Lake!

Living in Employee Housing is pretty fun, but on the days off, it's great to be able to get out and explore Skagway...

 So I bade the people ado.

And headed up for an adventure...

And yes, I am becoming a nature pic-geek

To Upper Lake

And thus begins the 2 hour hike straight up to Upper Dewey Lake.

I'm not complaining though.

Trail was alright that day...

Nothing too spectacular... 

It took me 30 minutes longer going up the hill because I just could not stop taking pictures...

The Hero!

Good Ol' No Name...

This pic was actually pretty rad.  I just put my camera down there, and without even looking, just took a rough shot to see if it was worth trying to get a better pic.  

 Funny thing was that this was by far the best one I got of it.

Gorgeous.

It was GOLDEN up there.  This picture doesn't quite do it justice...

Golden Mountain Top

Postcard Pic?

Awesome Sunset

Pic from Upper! 

Take ALL the Sunset pics!

But seriously...

TREK TO NO NAME

 And upon waking up to perfect weather, I decided I kind of felt like hiking a mountain...

Perfect Day

And what's a morning without some nature pics?

View outside of my tent

And after eating breakfast, I HEADED UP!

Some cool ducks along the way 

Walking around the Lake

Some guys going flying!

 THE MISSION:
No Name

First step was head up above this line.  Took the greenest/non-forested path to middle-left.

Then went far right to head up gradual way.

And then picked the grassy zig zag up the middle right

And headed straight up the middle... 

PHOTO OP!

And then set my sights on getting up to the ridge line

RIDGE OF NO NAME

And I made it!

 Some sweet pics from the top

And as usual, the pics don't come close to doing it justice.

(View from the other side of the Ridge)

Profile Pic!

You guys know what to do!  PANORAMAS! CLICK AWAY!

(Click them to see them full size) 

It was about at this point where things got looking really sketchy (as I had a backpack on), and I decided I should head back

So down I went...

THE TREK DOWN:

Took some more pics on the way down

Path down 

 I did that!

And back to Skag-Town!