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Published: July 24th 2011
This was my favorite trip yet. We started out Friday night in Girdwood at 9:30 pm and made our way up the most intense 5 miles of elevation gain of the trip. After that it was mostly downhill. Highlights included several waterfalls, glaciers, snow fields and lakes, scary vertical snow crossings, walking across streams, hiking through wildflowers and plants taller than us, dangerous glacial river fording, sprinkled with a few black bears and a moose. We backpacked 13 miles Saturday and 8 miles on Sunday.
After our successful crossing we realized we had absolutely no idea how to get back to our individual rides, because we totally screwed ourselves over with the car/key situation. Yes, the person with the car in Eagle River left his keys in my truck in Anchorage, my truck keys were left in another car in Girdwood, of which his keys were left in his backpack with someone else heading to Girdwood. So much time wasted and many car/gear shuffles later, we finally made it home at 1am (we finished hiking at 6 by the way).
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