Eagle Cap Trip

Well worth its weight in Granite,
1st day arrived late afternoon, needed to purchase annual forrestry permit, a tough find for sure, spent 2 hours trying to find one, forestry service closed on weekends, found the permit at a bowhunting sports store. Arrived at Two Pan Trailhead, where we packed in 6 miles. We set up camp in a large meadow with creek running through it. The sun had set and we knew it was going to be a cold one, the next morning our thermometer read 28 degrees, but that was the coldest morning we had to deal with the rest of trip, Thank God. 2nd day we paqcked up too Moquasin Lake where we fished a great deal of day. Later that afternoon we packed up 2 miles above the lake basin and set camp for evening. It was an excellent place to view the entire valley that was carved thousands of years ago by glacier movement. That eve. a hiker moved in and went to gather a drink from lake, and he fell into lake , whick was freezing cold,we went to his rescue, and he didn't want our assistance. so we kept an eye on him, pretty strange character, didn't want him going postal on us.
Next morning woke up to the smell of smoke, there was a forest fire, and looked like it was coming from the other side of ridge, So we decided to best climb up Eagle Cap at 10.552 ft. quite a climb without our 60 lb. packs, on our accent the winds really shifted 180, and by the time we arrived to top the fire had blown itself out , by going back to its origin. Talk about luck. We caught fish the next day rather big headed Brook Trout with small bodies, We didn't eat them kind of small. Next day we went to another valley 12 miler into the blue lake and morine lk. area, quite a different place with more trees and greener valley. we set up camp for evening, and fished with great sucess 12 inch brookies and very good eats, with garlic mashed potatoes. all in all it was a wonderful 4 day trip, with 60 miles of grat hiking up and down terrain, some trails very advanced, yet some very well maintained. Got home just in time to say goodbye to Nancy and Jen, and Phil. They are now in Georgetown with Libby and Bill. Hope you guys are having a great trip, see you when you come back this weekend, miss ya bunches Tucker and I are doing fine. By the way M.L. and Jeff plan a big Barn warming Sept 29th. so mark it on your calendar. and see you soon. Pat