Moving Slowly Upward, They Find the Last Available Water
“He shows anger, but says nothing, for fear he’ll have to carry the pack again, just frowns and ignores me while I relay the packs upward. I work off the resentment at having to do this by realizing that it isn’t any more work for me, actually, than the other way. It’s more work in terms of reaching the top of the mountain, but that’s only the nominal goal. In terms of the real goal, putting in good minutes, one after the other, it comes out the same; in fact, better. We climb slowly upward and the resentment leaves. .. For the next hour we move slowly upward, I carrying the packs in relays, to where I locate the beginning trickle of a stream. I send Chris down for water in one of the pans, which he gets. When he comes back he says, "Why are we stopping here? Let’s keep going." .. "This is probably the last stream we’ll see for a long time, Chris, and I’m tired."“
Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT Several days later Chris has diarrhea. Is this from stream water in these mountains?
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(Photo = 108-0905c ...... ZMM Page = 197 ...... WayPt = 199i11 ~6200ft …… Photo at WayPt = 225x)