Finger Lake to Rainy Pass to Rohn

[libby the lab]

Time for "The Steps"! Should be plenty of snow!

[libby the lab]

Trail notes for where "The Steps" are:
After leaving Finger Lake, the trail climbs steeply over a ridge to Red Lake, runs along it for a mile or two, swings up a ravine, and then follows a series of climbing wooded shelves interspersed with open swamps. About ten miles from Finger Lake, the trail drops down a series of wooded benches toward Happy River, then onto the river itself via the dreaded Happy River steps. Then it’s down the river to its mouth, up the Skwentna River for a few hundred yards, and back up a steep ravine to the plateau on the south side of the Happy. The trail will cross Shirley Lake, then Long Lake (11 miles from Rainy Pass Lodge) and then run along the steeply sloping mountainside above the south side of the Happy River valley to the checkpoint. There are two nasty stretches of sidehill trail in the last eight miles.

[tanglefoot]

Jessie is about to reach the steps

[Another UK Fan]

And GPS shows Dallas resting in FL. Hope he and the dogs get a bit of a breather there after the moose incident.