After a quick breakfast at the motel, we packed up our backpack and headed to REI for some last minute supplies. After lunch at Bellingham, we headed to the ranger station, picked up our blue bags and registered, and headed to the trailhead. Since it's still early in the season, we couldn't drive to the trailhead, instead we had a 1.5 miles road walk to warm up.

We hit the trail around 5 PM, by the time we got to a possible site to call it a day, it was about 8 PM. It was heavily fogged in, we did all the camp chores in the mist, it was pretty cool.

Big tree covered with moss, looks like a giant tarantulas.
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The group checking out the bulentin board outside the ranger station.
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8 feet in diameter.
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Jeff was demonstrating how to use the blue bag.
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Team gearing up. <Photo by Kim>
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Lei. <Photo by Kim>
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About 1.5 miles of road walk to the trailhead. <Photo by Kim>
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Kim and Rob.
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Me at the half buried trailhead sign. <Photo by Kim>
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<Photo by Kim>
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After a very short walk in the woods, the trail led into a avalanche field. <Photo by Kim>
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Avalanche carved the snowfield into a river. <Photo by Kim>
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<Photo by Kim>
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Looked like an enormous bulldozer plowed through the snowfield. <Photo by Kim>
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<Photo by Kim>
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Hiking into the clouds. <Photo by Kim>
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<Photo by Kim>
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Pushing on in low visibility. We ended up made camp at the ridge above us.
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