As always, having no vistas to shoot means I'll point the camera at the people I'm with. For those readers who don't know these people, you might recognize them from my posts from Montana; they are fellow scientists.
I arbitrarily chose places that I knew we could get to, and wouldn't be too avalanchy (a major concern, with the fresh rain). Big 4 ice caves, Mallardy Ridge, and the North fork falls.
Started at Big 4, I thought maybe it would take at least like 20 minutes of walking before snowball fighting started, but it pretty much started as soon as I closed the car doors.
Next was Mallardy Ridge, however, it's been like literally 8 years since I've been here last, so I had no idea where the trailhead to cutthroat lakes was..... So we walked to road end, found a decent lunch spot, and ate until the wind picked up and got really cold.
A winter scene.
There was no shortage of flinging or general snow related abuse.
And construction projects.
And of course, wanton destruction of giant snowballs.
Shelly had some kind of deep-seated shame about this shirt, but I thought it was hilarious.
Shortly after this photo was taken, I went through a small patch of potholes only to hear a horrid scraping and booming noise coming from the car, I slowed down and it stopped, but the brush cover from under the nose of my car had finally taken enough abuse and fallen off completely.....I recovered it, and may have to reattach it with zipties. Kinda funny.
Cool moss and lichen.
All in all a fine day with fine folks, making the best of a crappy hand of weather and highway closure.
