Snow and mountains

Crow Pass 26 mile backpacking adventure

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July 23rd 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 f ... read more

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