Selden Pass

Got going around 520 and had a little more of the downhill stretch to cover before we started to make our way up again. Even though we stopped for a while to fix another hole that had been created in AH’s sleeping pad AND with me leading the two of us we made it to the top of Selden Pass by 1. Perfectly timed for a nice lunch/nap combo. On our way down from the pass I tried my luck at glissading for the first time… It was a pretty pitiful sight. I made it about two feet before I freaked out and stopped myself with my feet. It took me way longer to slide down than if I had just walked.

We had to battle with sun cups in the snow all day and it was exhausting. We went through one raging river crossing but made sure we found the safest spot to cross that we could. After that crossing we warmed up a little but started hiking again quickly because it was getting late and the sun was going down. An hour or so later we had two more smaller creek crossings that we went over much more confidently due to their smaller size and then even more quickly found a tent site to set up a fire to warm us up. Even though the fire felt extremely nice I was way too tired to stay up any later and went to bed.