Monday, July 9, 2012

Winner Creek to Twentymile Packraft


Last weekend I had the chance to float twenty mile with some friends.  Yay!  I've wanted to do this trip for a while now, so I jumped at the chance.  It's a great hike up the Winner Creek Trail, over Berry Pass, and down to Twentymile Creek.  The forest service put in a pretty sweet trail nearly all the way there - boardwalks, stairs, and everything. Deluxe! 


With all of the snow melt, I think water levels were a little higher than normal in some of the smaller creeks crossing the trail.


If you haven't heard, it was a pretty big snow year this past winter. There was still *a lot* of snow out there! I think easily half of our hike was through snow.


Berry Pass!  Picture green tundra, alpine lakes, singing birds...


and Anson ready to fight off any bears! 


Twentymile was a blast.  A little narrow and fast to start, but soon mellowing out into a flat, beautiful river.  A great day trip for a novice pack rafter. 


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