I have been battling a cold this week and wanted to hike close to home on my day off. Art and I decided to hike up into Ten Mile Basin. Ten Mile Falls is a short hike along a handicap accessible trail that leads to a beautiful water fall. We had never climbed up the much steeper trail up into the basin before.
We had heard that there was an avalanche up the basin this winter, so we set that as our destination. This year's avalanches went down to bare dirt when they ran down their shoots. The took everything in their path with them, trees, boulders, brush everything. What is left now is a huge jumble of logs and debris. Here I am sitting on a downed log looking up the basin.
We hiked up as far as we could with out risking falling through the ice.
At the end of the basin is a long, glacier fed waterfall.
Almost back to the village we spy the twin fawns hiding in the brush. Their spots are almost gone.
We had heard that there was an avalanche up the basin this winter, so we set that as our destination. This year's avalanches went down to bare dirt when they ran down their shoots. The took everything in their path with them, trees, boulders, brush everything. What is left now is a huge jumble of logs and debris. Here I am sitting on a downed log looking up the basin.
We hiked up as far as we could with out risking falling through the ice.
3 comments:
awesome
Excellent pictures, Joan. Hope you're fully recovered from your "bug".
did you ever find Art's plants (from that previous blog)? :)
I wonder if you have any pics from higher up in the ice... these are beautiful, though.
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