Gros Ventre Wilderness: Granite Creek, West Fork Crystal Creek, Crystal Creek, & Swift Creek - June 2021

[travel2walk]

I finally got the video done of the trip I went on with @TheMountainRabbit into the Gros Ventre Wilderness in June 2021. You can find his report here: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/gros-ventre-wilderness-june-2021.9819/

Here is my video:

Also adding some pictures:

Mom moose and baby moose, who almost got swept away (day 1):

The tetons:

Heard of Elk Stampeding in front of us:

cool mountain ridge

Panorama of Antionette Peak

 

[TheMountainRabbit]

Not much video in the trees, huh?

RIP to my lucky trekking pole... new one just isn't the same.

I do still have it sitting next to my desk at home - complete w/ my on the trail "repair".

 

[travel2walk]

Not much video in the trees, huh?

RIP to my lucky trekking pole... new one just isn't the same.

I do still have it sitting next to my desk at home - complete w/ my on the trail "repair".
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lol, not at all. I had to just find pictures I took just to supplement the videos for the trees.

RIP to that stick.

 

[regehr]

nice! did this timing miss the biting bugs?

 

[TheMountainRabbit]

nice! did this timing miss the biting bugs?

I don't remember feeling any bug pressure at all. Probably only beat them by a week or two on the lower sections.

 

[regehr]

I don't remember feeling any bug pressure at all. Probably only beat them by a week or two on the lower sections.

great, thanks. that early season window between snow misery and bug misery can be a tough one, glad you nailed it.

 

[travel2walk]

great, thanks. that early season window between snow misery and bug misery can be a tough one, glad you nailed it.

No bugs, that week I could remember. Though the following week I went into Cirque and the bugs were pretty bad at the lower elevations. There weren't much in the Cirque itself. I think we were a bit too high for the skeeters on this trip at the time.

 

[OldBill]

Great TR and spectacular photos, as usual. Almost 38m in 3 days. You were moving, despite the bushwhacking. How's the animation of the route done?

 

[travel2walk]

Great TR and spectacular photos, as usual. Almost 38m in 3 days. You were moving, despite the bushwhacking. How's the animation of the route done?

Thanks! Yea, trips with @TheMountainRabbit have been my most challenging of the year in the last two. I know what to expect now lol. And I'm always grateful he gets me out of there in the end.

I would say the second days was the toughest for me on this trip. But I think part of it was the expectation of how tough the trip was going to be from the first day. I think we both had the boost in energy to get out on the 3rd.

The animation on the route is just a handdrawn object in power director (don't think is particularly great for editing, but it's what I started with since I didn't want to be beholden to adobe's subscription). If I were to start anew, I'd start learning davinchi for the editing process. May start playing with that more in the future.