4/26 to 4/30/2018 – Keeping along the lines of chronological order (and being way out of season) here is a real highlight trip of this last spring. A couple of weeks before this trip, I had the mad itch to get out for a multi-day adventure but wasn’t having much success locking anything down. Then I received a fairly spontaneous call from Guy to see if I’d be available for a 5 day ski-traverse in the Bob Marshall Wilderness to help conduct their monthly snow survey. He hit the nail on the head.

A week or so later, we were rallying up the mixed dirt and snow road to the Lodgepole trailhead where we’d be dropped off by the snowmobile to start our walk. An boy did we walk! Over the course of 5 days Guy and I covered around 60 miles of backcountry terrain and moseyed through the beating heart of wilderness in the lower 48. This traverse involved an authentic mixed bag of traveling conditions. We backcountry cross-country skied, we post-holed, we pack-rafted, we forded creeks, we arched tele(ish) turns through corn, we shimmied across logs over creeks, we kicked-and-glided, I swam, and we hiked… then we hiked some more. Eventually, we made it to the snow survey site and knocked out the hour of work before continuing onwards.

I won’t go into much more detail, but will say that I couldn’t have felt more fortunate to have spent time with such a gem of a human being in such a quiet and and glorious setting. Thank you Guy for one hell of a classic adventure and please sign me up next year!