Hells Canyon Long Hike - Day 2, April 2015!
 Here the boys are back on the highline prep to being loaded for the day |
 One of the few 'inactive' pictures you will see of Maxie |
 Ezra looking considerably less than excited about being loaded up |
 Early morning shot looking up the river in the direction we will be heading. Looks sort of, well, benign, right? It wasn't |
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 Heading up towards the appropriately named, 'Suicide Point' |
 Climbing, climbing... |
 Come'on, guys! What's the holdup? |
 Suicide Point, stil to come... |
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 Well, we've reached the apex of Suicide Point, and are starting down. You can just see the faint outline of the trail if you stare hard enough at the hill opposite. |
 A closer shot of the trail to come |
 This is a clear a vision as is possible of what much of the trail was like. |
 Hard as it is to believe, we will soon be trundling across the meadow to come |
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 Well, that wasn't so difficult, what's next? |
 Temperance Ranch with an airstrip on the Oregon side, and Big Bar airstrip on the Idaho side. |
 Just one more climb, then one more descent to the meadows in the distance |
 As you can see, we reached the meadow! |
 Willow Creek and an old miners cabin in the distance |
 Heading on upriver |
 Decorated rock |
 Heading on towards Pine Bar, and what was a long rest stop both coming and going |
 Pine Bar. Had clearly been used as a camping location by many. Next step is to go up and over that mountain on the other side of this area |
 Well Ezra is just plumb tuckered out! What is interesting about this picture is that he isn't acutally lying on my hiking poles up by his head. Each goat considers it an unspoken obligation to knock my hiking poles from whereever I put them, down onto the ground. No hking pole should go unchallenged. |
 Like I said, this was a long rest stop for everyone. |
 At this point, Ezra is saying, "Wait a minute! Did I hear you say that we are going to hike some more? Au contraire!" |
 Leaving Pine Bar |
 What Pine Bar looks like from the top of the mountain |
 On up and over the granite |
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 Any place is a resting spot when you're tired |
 Maxie surveying his kingdom |
 So many choices, so little time... |
 The oasis at Sheep Creek |
 Campground (such as it is) for the second night. |
 Looking back towards the McAuffee cabin |
 One of the locals. He suggested that he had already laid ownership to this area |
 Next morning. And especially attractive stretch of river |
