This is from the south side of Lake Josephine looking up to the Grinnell glacier complex. Unfortunately my biggest disappointment occurred when all the photos from the middle of the day were lost.... i'm not sure how but I have them only in memory now. So look up into these mountains and imagine this; the trail winds through the trees to the end of the lake, crosses a bridge over the inlet stream and then starts climbing up the valley. You see incredibly colorful rocks of red Grinnell argillite and green Appikuny argillite, laced with creamy quartsite and grey to black bands of something else (need I say rock freak's delight?) ....this is not to mention all the wildflowers decorating the slopes. Soon you pass under a chilly wall of water that's tumbling over the trail (very welcome later in the day when it's hot) Now you see the trail crew up ahead carving a path through the remnant snow patches and you thank them as you pass. There's one pretty good scramble through a washout that hasn't yet been repaired and then a little huffing and puffing and soon you're at the terminal moraine of the Grinnell Glacier. I explored around here and got some really neat shots of the outflow waterfall..... you'll just have to take my word for it!
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