Trust your intuition. We intended this to be a two night trip: Hike to Lake Stuart, camp, then next day hike to Colchuck Lake, day climb Aasgaard Pass and then leave the next day. The day before we left I had a weird feeling. Not sure what it was, but I was in a bad mood and did not want to go hiking even though we were looking forward to this trip for a long time. Even as we set up camp I felt something was wrong. After changing into our swimsuits, Andy set the timer on our camera and we ran into the lake, splashing around while the camera took pictures ever five seconds or so. Andy's glasses fell off while splashing in the lake.. We looked for a good hour, trying to find his glasses with red legs. They were long gone :( I made the decision to leave, plus there would be thunderstorms at night. I wasn't feeling it. Oh well. Plan is to come back next year and conquer Aasgaard. Woot!
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Lake Stuart
September 8, 2012
Trust your intuition. We intended this to be a two night trip: Hike to Lake Stuart, camp, then next day hike to Colchuck Lake, day climb Aasgaard Pass and then leave the next day. The day before we left I had a weird feeling. Not sure what it was, but I was in a bad mood and did not want to go hiking even though we were looking forward to this trip for a long time. Even as we set up camp I felt something was wrong. After changing into our swimsuits, Andy set the timer on our camera and we ran into the lake, splashing around while the camera took pictures ever five seconds or so. Andy's glasses fell off while splashing in the lake.. We looked for a good hour, trying to find his glasses with red legs. They were long gone :( I made the decision to leave, plus there would be thunderstorms at night. I wasn't feeling it. Oh well. Plan is to come back next year and conquer Aasgaard. Woot!
Splash splash
Actually, the sequence of pictures is really funny because you see us running to the lake, splash in a few pictures, then end with Andy in the lake looking for his glasses. You can see in this picture, too, the drop in the lake. The water was damn cold and neither of us had goggles so we were not able to dive in any farther than that edge.
Trust your intuition. We intended this to be a two night trip: Hike to Lake Stuart, camp, then next day hike to Colchuck Lake, day climb Aasgaard Pass and then leave the next day. The day before we left I had a weird feeling. Not sure what it was, but I was in a bad mood and did not want to go hiking even though we were looking forward to this trip for a long time. Even as we set up camp I felt something was wrong. After changing into our swimsuits, Andy set the timer on our camera and we ran into the lake, splashing around while the camera took pictures ever five seconds or so. Andy's glasses fell off while splashing in the lake.. We looked for a good hour, trying to find his glasses with red legs. They were long gone :( I made the decision to leave, plus there would be thunderstorms at night. I wasn't feeling it. Oh well. Plan is to come back next year and conquer Aasgaard. Woot!