It's Hiking Season!

I've actually been out on 3 really good hikes this week. Wednesday, the women of the Wednesday walkers hiked the Galena Trail from Sandon to New Denver. We had 14 hikers and two dogs. The picture I've included is the first two women crossing Carpenter Creek on the cable car.

Saturday p.m., Andrea, Dave, Carroll (Dave's brother) and I drove up to the one clearcut that we can see from our place. From there, we hiked through the trees and REALLY bad mosquitoes upto a ridge. I gave up before the ridge, but I did get a view of Fletcher Lake.

Sunday, the Sunday Strutters went up Whitewater Canyon - very, very nice. Pictured in today's blog is Whitewater Mountain. The trail was very good - 450m of elevation gain over 5.5 km and we had some snowfields to cross. The campground was completely snowed in and there won't be any scrambles up Mt. Whitewater any time soon. We did have an opportunity to see one large, male grizzly in the valley opposite to us - another group of 13 hikers!