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We again camped at Eagle Creek before starting our 11 day Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness backpack.

Around sunset, fter five+ hours of car shuttling, Greg and I hiked in to meet everyone else.

For our dayhike, we had to get across this river. I gave up and got my boots wet.


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A thunderstorm turned us away from the summit of Peak Abundance just moments after this photo.


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After Josh and Martin swam to the island, Jenna and I decided we could too - there were a lot of water plants clogging the way.

The most direct route to this creek from our 'Slough Creek' camp took twenty minutes of scrambling over and under logs laying across a dry tributary.
The boys found water five minutes from camp, the opposite direction.


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Jenna and I kept trying to figure out if the flowers faced the sun during the morning, evening, or all the time, then decided they didn't move at all.

All the black specks on the tent are biting flies. This doesn't compare to how bad the flies were in the Lionhead.

We descended into the valley, then up the next hill and into the next valley, all in one day.

The clouds made these beautiful shadows right when we stopped for lunch at the top of a pass.

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Jenna found some broken sunglasses.


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Marten and Josh fixed this bearhang at our last camp in the wilderness.

Our trail the next day left something to be desired: something more than cairns. Ok, it got better after the first couple miles.

The sky mourned our departure from the Absarokas with some more rain.

And hail. (It's the white stuff on the ground!)

By the end of the day, the rain stopped, although we left our rain gear on just in case.

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