On to washington where a severe addiction to McDonald's hot apple pies had rendred the front seat full of miniature cardboard boxes.
And up Rainy Pass where we camped our tired asses for the night. We got up around 5:30 and were not quite prepared for the amazing beauty of the north cascades.
We spend the rest of the morning tooting for pygmy owls. After a brief and unsatisfying look at one that flew just as I was getting the scope, we tried for more and eventually had another one. I played the tape just to get it a little bit more disturbed, when another one flew in and they did battle with their beaks!
Then up Cascade Canyon to attempt to reach the Sahale Glacier. HAH! As stunningly beautiful as it was, this 20-ish mile hike in 2 days was a little much for us at this point since the snow was pouring down. I had the really genius idea of constructing a snow hut for us to sleep in which took 3 hours. We ended up freezing our asses and getting quite wet.
And thus it was that our deep snow ptarmigan search above the treeline was short-lived, so we turned back (I know - not very epic - sorry). On the way, we encountered this quite confused grouse which I took advantage of as it foraged on leaves at point blank range. I was set on eating it but Dom talked me out of it.
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