Looking NW (up) the valley, Day 1
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Katie coming up 1st hill
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Sarah (skis sticking out of pack only got caught in trees once to flip her over)
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Steph
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Sarah and Steph MUCH later (note setting sun behind Mt. Gardner) after having slipped and slogged up Sick Joke Hill
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View of liquor and out of Fawn cabin (to be "moved" this summer to Granite peak)
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Mt. Gardner looms in background
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Not so many colors in this sunset
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Day 2
View from Gardner hut towards NW
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View from Gardner hut to West
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Mt. Gardner with Granite peak in near foreground
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Steph checks cut at Gardner Hut
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Inside Gardner Hut (note tidiness, perhaps having to do with lack of alcohol)
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Also notice Oriental rug (fancy!)
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Rendevouz Hut (in my opinion the best view)
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View from Cassal Hut
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Cassal Hut (and nice people who offered us brownies and fig newtons inside)
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Back at Fawn Hut (after 30 k day)
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View SE from Fawn Hut (and outhouse)
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Day 3: return to car
halfway down Sick Joke Hill
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from same spot looking down
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from same spot looking up
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Alison reaches the bottom of Sick Joke Hill
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Noah remarks how easy this is with downhill skis (even with a laden sled)
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