For the last 2 years I have wanted to climb these peaks and for whatever reason it just never happened. My friend Sandy and I did a round trip 18 mile day from Hurricane creek trail head up Thorpe Creek Basin to Sacajawea peak and then navigated over a sketchy ridge line up to the Matterhorn, then down to ice lake and out the West Fork of the Wallowa river to Wallowa lake. It was awesome and caused perma smile most of the way. Here's a few pictures of our adventure below:
This is looking up at the ridge line we climbed to get to Sacajawea. At this point we had already hiked about 4 miles and gained 2500 ft of elevation gain.
Miss Sandy navigating her way up the ridge. Note beautiful blue skies we were not suppose to have. It had snowed on the peaks the last 2 or 3 nights, which of course is completely inappropriate for august.
Beautiful view of the Hurricane creek drainage on our way to Sacajawea.
Only had a few minutes at the top of the first peak because we were on a deadline and weren't completely sure we could make it across the ridge with the fresh snow.
After we made it safely across the scary part we were able to look down onto ice lake which is absolutely breathtaking.
After sitting for about 10 minutes on the Matterhorn Summit the clouds blew in with a dab of snow and we bee lined for the lake. While taking pictures here we looked up and saw 17 goats on the ridge over from where we were at. I took a picture but it didn't really do it justice like looking through Sandy's awesome bino's. After we made it down to the lake it was a smooth sailing 8 miles out to her truck. It was a great day and I still smile thinking about it. Should get me through my next week of work. Until next time............
3 comments:
Wow! Beautiful.
I'm glad we have you to take the breathtaking pictures. You are one iimpressive gal. :)
Sounds like tons of fun!! Will you help me convince Andy hiking is fun??
Another fun adventure with AWESOME pictures! Thanks for sharing Dawn.
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