Dennis Eugene
04-07-2012, 05:19 PM
Watched the weather all week as it kept getting better and better and when we get a day like today on the island you learn not to waste it. Got up early and met up with a friend, Troy, Left the house at 06:20 and started hiking ended up not getting back to the house until 11:45 tired and hungry. We started up the hill it was cool and calm a real cadillac of a day. Takes about an hour to get up through the timber until you get into the open where you need to put the snowshoes on. We crossed a couple muskegs looking towards the ridge we where heading uphttp://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2221.jpgHere's a picture of me Troy snapped after we crossed the muskeg and broke out of the timber on the ridge top http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2224.jpg here's another fine photo looking back towards where we had came from on the ridge http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2230.jpgand on I snapped of Troy while taking a break before the final assault towards the repeater atop the Mt. http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2227.jpg here's a nice pic of our destination the top and the repeater from where Troy stood in the last pic.http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2229.jpg The ground got very steep and the snow was unstable so we cut short our hike just a hunnert yrds shy of the repeater but I did get this one pic of the 40' container that houses much of the electrical equipment http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2233.jpg and before we started back down I side hilled over and took this one photo of the Pacific from up near the top. http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/100_2232.jpg All in all it was a very enjoyable morning all tho much hard work was involved especially on my part as I seem to keep getting older every year and Troy is a solid 11 years younger than I and works me hard as I would him where the shoe on the other foot. I hope you enjoy this post nearly as much as I. Dennis