Day 143 – 9/12/13 -11.5 mi (2622.7)

This was our shortest day here in Glacier, but we found ways to entertain ourselves. I didn’t get out of my sleeping bag until 8am, and we left camp around 9am. I have never left camp this late before. We had a couple miles of climbing to Triple Divide Pass, where the drainages split between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Hudson Bay. We stopped for a very long morning break and dried out our sleeping bags, wet from condensation the night before. We had all cowboyed in one campsite, a bit of a squeeze.

From Triple Divide Pass, we saw a beautiful blue lake with a bunch of icebergs floating in it. Though slightly off trail, we stopped by for a look on our way down from the pass. And then we all jumped in, because really, you gotta do something ’til Matlock.

We left the lake about 1:30pm, having only walked 4 miles for the day thus far. The rest of the day was a boring walk down the valley and into a burn area. We took another very long break in the afternoon before reaching our campsite on Red Eagle Lake. We have the whole place to ourselves tonight.