Starting with a few pictures first, here's our "altitude acclimatization" day at the Bear River camp, Bald Mountain pass, and the Provo River falls.
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Alex at the Bear River |
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Cliffs of Bald Mountain Pass |
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Our campsite at Bear River. The pump gave us rusty water that we didn't like. We ended up refilling water bottles in the river instead. |
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Alex on the river. I was standing in it in my "river shoes." |
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The view from Bald Mountain Pass, including the distant Wasatch range. |
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Pyramidal mountains of the western Uinta range. |
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Alex scampering around the cliffs of Bald Mountain pass right after a pounding hailstorm blew through. |
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The picture that made Mom nervous... |
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Nice view of the cliffs. We weren't really that high, of course, and the bench/ledge system made it easy to navigate by scrambling without ever feeling anything "technical." |
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I sent Alex a bit out to help give a sense of scale. |
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Looking back out over the pass to the east. |
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We couldn't help doing a little scrambling. It was fun. |
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Looking towards the west. The clouds are just starting to clear again. |
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Lots of rocks. |
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My radioactive green shirt. The mountain behind me is, I believe, Haystack. |
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Alex at the upper falls. |
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The view area was a little too touristy for our taste; we left it and went scrambling down to the middle and lower falls off trail on the other side of the river. |
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Provo river falls |
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Alex still climbing around near the falls. |
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Surveying his domain. Middle falls? Lower falls? Can't remember anymore. |
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Alex near the lower falls. |
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Trying to get back out from the lower falls was actually easier said than done. |
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Looking out towards Agassiz; where I went last year. |
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Agassiz from the Mirror Lake Hwy. |
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Hayden from Mirror Lake Hwy. |
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More of the peaks near the highway. |
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Two-pronged Kletting peak; I camped and scrambled all over the far side of this mountain last year, but due to an error in route-finding where I went for the subpeak instead of the actual peak, I never actually made the summit. |
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Ostler and Spread Eagle from back near the Bear River ranger station. |
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A-1 peak from near the ranger station. |
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A more panoramic spread of the peaks from the ranger station. |
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