Bob
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After the Yellowstone floods washed out our access to the Beartooth's, Scat had me send him some of the 50M routes I have in my archives...... we settled on a Teton Wilderness route I modified to fit 5 nights.
Day started driving to the Trailhead in rain, should say buckets of rain..... but by the time we started hiking in the rain had stopped (temporary).
But it was generally all downhill to Cub Creek ..... in MUD, the gooey, slimy, sticky kind. At least it was mostly downhill. Scat and I were worn out by then, well me a long way before that.... Then more RAIN .... I called quits at about 8 pm..... we were not going to make the preferred camp before dark. Good thing we stooped, found out my headlamp had turned on and was dead.... so my GPS receiver became my light for the trip. All was good cause I reigned in Scat to stop before dark after that....
Books Lake
![P1020308.JPG P1020308.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112470-609ae0e2e3d937a0681ca34408832318.jpg)
Scat contemplating a stream crossing
![P1020309.JPG P1020309.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112471-7b72afe3c3c97eee2e9aa9805abe1780.jpg)
![P1020316.JPG P1020316.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112472-e0efa55d767c13a5ca2a2774edac52e0.jpg)
Rainbow Lake
![P1020323.JPG P1020323.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112473-4be0fc4407b07c7956f7a84320a1d924.jpg)
![P1020327.JPG P1020327.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112474-0f52106140f06bf70628fc2be97295ca.jpg)
![P1020331.JPG P1020331.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112475-e8a85ed10c5087c70da411453fdd62e0.jpg)
Did I mention MUD?
![P1020335.JPG P1020335.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112476-bf0a48e63a2e9527548578487730451d.jpg)
![P1020338.JPG P1020338.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112477-ffa049763a5f0803dec3e902d32cec08.jpg)
Into the burns, pretty much an all downhill day
![P1020342.JPG P1020342.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112478-dfe8a4b1fa99108192f61cf529d299eb.jpg)
![P1020344.JPG P1020344.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112479-e40762d772599b8ddd2ee0a708ccd7b6.jpg)
![P1020346.JPG P1020346.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112480-37e9d9cf6502e6ab584828e24932b68c.jpg)
![P1020349.JPG P1020349.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112481-057f6bce11ecc1d626996a7b41b1b881.jpg)
Scat requested the MUD shot, close to a bog but on the vertical side, about 45 deg
![P1020350.JPG P1020350.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112482-2e79c16b0ffcee66c2b6e199279b02a9.jpg)
South Fork Buffalo River
![P1020354.JPG P1020354.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112483-05e20e9c9ce3e1b5893d2228511b28e4.jpg)
View from Night 2 camp
![P1020356.JPG P1020356.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112484-435470b60e919853d843589b6df83b17.jpg)
![P1020362.JPG P1020362.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112485-a0bb880f86180a3a53b2a1d5819b82fe.jpg)
![P1020365.JPG P1020365.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112486-282cec8d404b3d6abe87b30a0c883760.jpg)
Climb out of the South Fork, an all uphill day, 2600 ft up
![P1020368.JPG P1020368.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112487-d3ff314ba1efbe2e0e0174c462ec80bb.jpg)
Ahhhhhh, finally at the top
![P1020370.JPG P1020370.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112488-9f39452037c3bbbe93b5150258295c5a.jpg)
![P1020372.JPG P1020372.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112489-9c710404132fbdee365d2d6e1658e81a.jpg)
![P1020374.JPG P1020374.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112490-7dac9cd840f03ccc8670b505809d20d4.jpg)
![P1020377.JPG P1020377.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112491-c4a694707208c8abd6aaf27d07724728.jpg)
Night 3 camp
![P1020380.JPG P1020380.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112492-fdab342c4250840d53da426f0f69440d.jpg)
![P1020387.JPG P1020387.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112493-11dcb1b6f68a7cb9bcebd89c6e8e73db.jpg)
![P1020392.JPG P1020392.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112494-1f856bf72d315da8f661cfa680d74f0d.jpg)
Unnamed lake South of Marston Pass. Had a church school similar to NOLS camped here
![P1020394.JPG P1020394.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112495-25cac86362c5061937d4f23f169ba7a3.jpg)
Up and up.
![P1020395.JPG P1020395.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112496-2276509eb9025af06971cbd537ff97d5.jpg)
![P1020399.JPG P1020399.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112497-9eff7e75171acc05ac398d7967c2f3ad.jpg)
![P1020401.JPG P1020401.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112498-0316e4b44e48421b840bde3059462e0b.jpg)
![P1020403.JPG P1020403.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112499-f100dcf5e285d5e7e8201799d1af7fe7.jpg)
![P1020405.JPG P1020405.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112500-b26e4e0ae626aa5f0c0d2772b390041e.jpg)
![P1020406.JPG P1020406.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112501-db3dfa32316fb693c36c2f8f1cbf593b.jpg)
![P1020407.JPG P1020407.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112502-d2a0af8c3bb1b76077173abe2d97fa71.jpg)
Camp 4, high alpine tundra
![P1020409.JPG P1020409.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112503-6367dc698e2fddd2332c5bf103a66989.jpg)
Morning visitors, total herd of 30 and two big bulls about 300 yds away
![P1020420.JPG P1020420.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112504-7d8104278f39286e213ff72dfb6eebd9.jpg)
More up and down and up and down ..... 4 to be exact
![P1020423.JPG P1020423.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112505-9d0628ceb8e7324c110e07369237efdf.jpg)
![P1020428.JPG P1020428.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112506-a2495de39842ea91422a00dbe3a740b8.jpg)
![P1020433.JPG P1020433.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112507-0214a4657867e5e60f59a6219a96ba7c.jpg)
![P1020434.JPG P1020434.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112508-f030b9aec878bed066d634661dd9e5d0.jpg)
![P1020437.JPG P1020437.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112509-815d6430078ab6120f2683d1f0a3457c.jpg)
![P1020438.JPG P1020438.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112510-370118556687ae7f543950bf282e4887.jpg)
![P1020440.JPG P1020440.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112511-28871e0079fb268f43e859c6ca5200f3.jpg)
![P1020445.JPG P1020445.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112512-6272eb38527b79aefb783b1f8e5f05c8.jpg)
![P1020450.JPG P1020450.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112513-15f77fd8f0252f4ac5a61ec311ecec1b.jpg)
![P1020454.JPG P1020454.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112514-55d31f6a668e459f37f52c8e457f590e.jpg)
![P1020458.JPG P1020458.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112515-2a000523a5701bd18d4458593e88c61d.jpg)
Camp 5, just shy of 10700 ft just below Cresent Mountain
![P1020464.JPG P1020464.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112516-ef896f3f72bb42fc66024efdfc2ae9af.jpg)
Last day, headed for our biggest downhill of 1650 ft, but there is always a climb back up (this one was 1150 ft) to Bonneville Pass. We bypassed another uphill and picked the easy, timber and downfall (elk trail luckily). In retrospect the uphill would have been better. Darn that Scat ......... might have been me, can't remember.
![P1020471.JPG P1020471.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112517-b11aed046f916ecc4b0bd49620381206.jpg)
![P1020472.JPG P1020472.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112518-2d3e2c7dc35b6c1b3889327087f596b6.jpg)
![P1020473.JPG P1020473.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112519-ea4fcdbb6ef777e49d1e745a78d9d953.jpg)
![P1020477.JPG P1020477.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112520-18306b630ed54d7197cba74b2d0a2f33.jpg)
Down and down
![P1020480.JPG P1020480.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112521-a70af007e3b02620a28db8fa94408892.jpg)
Headed to the Dundee Creek Meadows
![P1020482.JPG P1020482.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112522-982cec4fde8f2fb1a41265844ec552e3.jpg)
View west from Bonneville Pass.
![P1020488.JPG P1020488.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112523-ac32ab118b9229a6556879ab34df14a3.jpg)
We could smell the barn from here, less than a mile to go, downhill !!!!!!
![P1020489.JPG P1020489.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112524-87e833578ed4a498fc79b7520cfdd9a9.jpg)
Scats impression of the trip, I think this is really close to a smile ( I tricked him)
![P10204590.JPG P10204590.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112525-9d16a731cf60925f1e9d1334ea9af180.jpg)
Did I say I hate MUD? I will never complain about a rocky trail again.
I plead no collaboration with any story Scat posts. what I say may or may not be true, can't remember. A great trip, excellent scenery, excellent company ... Now one of my top three places.
Day started driving to the Trailhead in rain, should say buckets of rain..... but by the time we started hiking in the rain had stopped (temporary).
But it was generally all downhill to Cub Creek ..... in MUD, the gooey, slimy, sticky kind. At least it was mostly downhill. Scat and I were worn out by then, well me a long way before that.... Then more RAIN .... I called quits at about 8 pm..... we were not going to make the preferred camp before dark. Good thing we stooped, found out my headlamp had turned on and was dead.... so my GPS receiver became my light for the trip. All was good cause I reigned in Scat to stop before dark after that....
Books Lake
![P1020308.JPG P1020308.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112470-609ae0e2e3d937a0681ca34408832318.jpg)
Scat contemplating a stream crossing
![P1020309.JPG P1020309.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112471-7b72afe3c3c97eee2e9aa9805abe1780.jpg)
![P1020316.JPG P1020316.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112472-e0efa55d767c13a5ca2a2774edac52e0.jpg)
Rainbow Lake
![P1020323.JPG P1020323.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112473-4be0fc4407b07c7956f7a84320a1d924.jpg)
![P1020327.JPG P1020327.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112474-0f52106140f06bf70628fc2be97295ca.jpg)
![P1020331.JPG P1020331.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112475-e8a85ed10c5087c70da411453fdd62e0.jpg)
Did I mention MUD?
![P1020335.JPG P1020335.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112476-bf0a48e63a2e9527548578487730451d.jpg)
![P1020338.JPG P1020338.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112477-ffa049763a5f0803dec3e902d32cec08.jpg)
Into the burns, pretty much an all downhill day
![P1020342.JPG P1020342.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112478-dfe8a4b1fa99108192f61cf529d299eb.jpg)
![P1020344.JPG P1020344.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112479-e40762d772599b8ddd2ee0a708ccd7b6.jpg)
![P1020346.JPG P1020346.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112480-37e9d9cf6502e6ab584828e24932b68c.jpg)
![P1020349.JPG P1020349.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112481-057f6bce11ecc1d626996a7b41b1b881.jpg)
Scat requested the MUD shot, close to a bog but on the vertical side, about 45 deg
![P1020350.JPG P1020350.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112482-2e79c16b0ffcee66c2b6e199279b02a9.jpg)
South Fork Buffalo River
![P1020354.JPG P1020354.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112483-05e20e9c9ce3e1b5893d2228511b28e4.jpg)
View from Night 2 camp
![P1020356.JPG P1020356.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112484-435470b60e919853d843589b6df83b17.jpg)
![P1020362.JPG P1020362.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112485-a0bb880f86180a3a53b2a1d5819b82fe.jpg)
![P1020365.JPG P1020365.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112486-282cec8d404b3d6abe87b30a0c883760.jpg)
Climb out of the South Fork, an all uphill day, 2600 ft up
![P1020368.JPG P1020368.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112487-d3ff314ba1efbe2e0e0174c462ec80bb.jpg)
Ahhhhhh, finally at the top
![P1020370.JPG P1020370.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112488-9f39452037c3bbbe93b5150258295c5a.jpg)
![P1020372.JPG P1020372.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112489-9c710404132fbdee365d2d6e1658e81a.jpg)
![P1020374.JPG P1020374.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112490-7dac9cd840f03ccc8670b505809d20d4.jpg)
![P1020377.JPG P1020377.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112491-c4a694707208c8abd6aaf27d07724728.jpg)
Night 3 camp
![P1020380.JPG P1020380.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112492-fdab342c4250840d53da426f0f69440d.jpg)
![P1020387.JPG P1020387.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112493-11dcb1b6f68a7cb9bcebd89c6e8e73db.jpg)
![P1020392.JPG P1020392.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112494-1f856bf72d315da8f661cfa680d74f0d.jpg)
Unnamed lake South of Marston Pass. Had a church school similar to NOLS camped here
![P1020394.JPG P1020394.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112495-25cac86362c5061937d4f23f169ba7a3.jpg)
Up and up.
![P1020395.JPG P1020395.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112496-2276509eb9025af06971cbd537ff97d5.jpg)
![P1020399.JPG P1020399.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112497-9eff7e75171acc05ac398d7967c2f3ad.jpg)
![P1020401.JPG P1020401.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112498-0316e4b44e48421b840bde3059462e0b.jpg)
![P1020403.JPG P1020403.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112499-f100dcf5e285d5e7e8201799d1af7fe7.jpg)
![P1020405.JPG P1020405.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112500-b26e4e0ae626aa5f0c0d2772b390041e.jpg)
![P1020406.JPG P1020406.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112501-db3dfa32316fb693c36c2f8f1cbf593b.jpg)
![P1020407.JPG P1020407.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112502-d2a0af8c3bb1b76077173abe2d97fa71.jpg)
Camp 4, high alpine tundra
![P1020409.JPG P1020409.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112503-6367dc698e2fddd2332c5bf103a66989.jpg)
Morning visitors, total herd of 30 and two big bulls about 300 yds away
![P1020420.JPG P1020420.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112504-7d8104278f39286e213ff72dfb6eebd9.jpg)
More up and down and up and down ..... 4 to be exact
![P1020423.JPG P1020423.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112505-9d0628ceb8e7324c110e07369237efdf.jpg)
![P1020428.JPG P1020428.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112506-a2495de39842ea91422a00dbe3a740b8.jpg)
![P1020433.JPG P1020433.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112507-0214a4657867e5e60f59a6219a96ba7c.jpg)
![P1020434.JPG P1020434.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112508-f030b9aec878bed066d634661dd9e5d0.jpg)
![P1020437.JPG P1020437.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112509-815d6430078ab6120f2683d1f0a3457c.jpg)
![P1020438.JPG P1020438.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112510-370118556687ae7f543950bf282e4887.jpg)
![P1020440.JPG P1020440.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112511-28871e0079fb268f43e859c6ca5200f3.jpg)
![P1020445.JPG P1020445.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112512-6272eb38527b79aefb783b1f8e5f05c8.jpg)
![P1020450.JPG P1020450.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112513-15f77fd8f0252f4ac5a61ec311ecec1b.jpg)
![P1020454.JPG P1020454.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112514-55d31f6a668e459f37f52c8e457f590e.jpg)
![P1020458.JPG P1020458.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112515-2a000523a5701bd18d4458593e88c61d.jpg)
Camp 5, just shy of 10700 ft just below Cresent Mountain
![P1020464.JPG P1020464.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112516-ef896f3f72bb42fc66024efdfc2ae9af.jpg)
Last day, headed for our biggest downhill of 1650 ft, but there is always a climb back up (this one was 1150 ft) to Bonneville Pass. We bypassed another uphill and picked the easy, timber and downfall (elk trail luckily). In retrospect the uphill would have been better. Darn that Scat ......... might have been me, can't remember.
![P1020471.JPG P1020471.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112517-b11aed046f916ecc4b0bd49620381206.jpg)
![P1020472.JPG P1020472.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112518-2d3e2c7dc35b6c1b3889327087f596b6.jpg)
![P1020473.JPG P1020473.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112519-ea4fcdbb6ef777e49d1e745a78d9d953.jpg)
![P1020477.JPG P1020477.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112520-18306b630ed54d7197cba74b2d0a2f33.jpg)
Down and down
![P1020480.JPG P1020480.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112521-a70af007e3b02620a28db8fa94408892.jpg)
Headed to the Dundee Creek Meadows
![P1020482.JPG P1020482.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112522-982cec4fde8f2fb1a41265844ec552e3.jpg)
View west from Bonneville Pass.
![P1020488.JPG P1020488.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112523-ac32ab118b9229a6556879ab34df14a3.jpg)
We could smell the barn from here, less than a mile to go, downhill !!!!!!
![P1020489.JPG P1020489.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112524-87e833578ed4a498fc79b7520cfdd9a9.jpg)
Scats impression of the trip, I think this is really close to a smile ( I tricked him)
![P10204590.JPG P10204590.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/112/112525-9d16a731cf60925f1e9d1334ea9af180.jpg)
Did I say I hate MUD? I will never complain about a rocky trail again.
I plead no collaboration with any story Scat posts. what I say may or may not be true, can't remember. A great trip, excellent scenery, excellent company ... Now one of my top three places.