Hike to the Orphan Boy Cabin

Bill, Jen, Dan, and Dan's sister Debbie spent a lovely-but-long (almost 8 hours) hiking up Keller Mountain to the Orphan Boy Cabin. So far this year, we and the Eisemanns are the only visitors, to judge by the journal entries.

22 images 1. Bill, Jen, Dan, Deb - Charlie (beside Jen) and Zippy (not pictured) also came along

2. Ants in her pants - we paused for a brief moment, and Debbie happened to be standing on an ant hill (bottom of picture)

3. Monument plant (green gentian)

4. These were two of the many, many, many logs across the trail.

5. Zippy

6. The upper reaches of North Rock Creek

7. Mt. Keller summit on the right

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13. Upper reaches of Boulder Creek

14. a huge avalanche (about 3.5 years ago) choked the valley for a long distance

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21. Mt. Valhalla? - the pointy one near the center.
Oops! Corrections from Stan Wagon (Gore Range expert, Emeritus Prof of Mathematics, Macalester College): "The pointyish peak in center is Grand Traverse Peak (not Valhalla). The peak at far right is N Traverse Peak. The ridge in between is the Grand Traverse.Valhalla is far left. I have skied from the summit. (avy issues, but it was ok, report HERE. Also good rock climbing on those ridges (there are two, one visible in your pic) coming E off Valhalla."

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