One Last Look at Turret and Pigeon Peaks (Taken the night before!)
After bagging both Pigeon and Turret, we were all ready to hike out of Ruby Basin and back to civilization. We woke up rather early and broke camp. On our way hiking out, I got this amazing picture of Ruby Lake at 8am.
We crossed a couple of streams on our way back to Needleton Station. Here’s Georgia traversing a log.
At Needleton Station, after descending for about 5 hours from Ruby Basin high meadow base camp.
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Our Base Camp at Ruby Creek Basin Meadow
On Friday morning, we broke camp and hiked to the huge football field sized meadow at the base of Pigeon and Turret Peaks. The rain from the previous day had soaked everything. It was time for the morning shake and shove…First ya gotta shake it out, then you gotta shove it in the pack. We all made breakfast and talked excitedly about the day ahead of us.
I decided once we were settled in the meadow, we should scope out the first hour of our hike for the following morning. We’d be leaving at Oh-Dark-Thirty, so it would be super if we knew the first bit of the hike. So, soon after we were set up, a scouting trip ensued. I’m really happy we did the scouting because the way I had pictured going did not at all work out. Luckily, we figured out the proper way! (more…)