Log entries Gem & Estelle....Idaho's first OpenCache
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2007-06-09 23:39
The Tramp
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- Found it
Estelle Lake and the Cabinet Range from the summit.The road to the TH is
finally free of snow. Just a week and a half ago, I had to hike an
extra mile to get to the trailhead for Trestle Peak, but today it was
smooth (relatively speaking -- this IS a FS road, after all) sailing to
the Gem Lake TH. The hike in was mostly snow free until entering the Gem
Lake bowl where things flatten out and it's pretty protected. My dog
Terra and I were on snow for most of the way after that. Higher up on
the bushwack it cleared due to the open western exposure. There was a
pretty healthy snow cornice along the eastern side of the ridge on past
the summit, but a snow-free path right on the ridge to the top. When I
was near the cache site, my GPS was pointing ~20 feet into the snow
cornice -- which wasn't gonna happen. So I sat on a log and looked west.
I spotted some suspicious looking rocks under a tree and there it
was--whew! Signed the log and took a number of photos. Incredible views
of both the Selkirks and the Cabinets from up here. Thanks for a grand
adventure, ConradRV. Btw, saw a lot of old bear scat, but nothing too
fresh. Lots of moose, elk and deer tracks, though.The Tramp
