The ten feet high second floor window of Elk Summit Guard Station is below eye level in this picture, a continuing testimony of the abnormal winter snowpack of 2008. The Station is approximately 22 miles south of Lochsa Lodge and Highway 12. This photo was taken toward the end of Day-Nine in a double crossing of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, which included the summit of Blodgett Pass. It was here where I took one day off in my tent. Another nice storm settled in on me for that day too, but was briefly gone by the second morning when I packed up and left. “Too cold to snow” as we say up north, the storm was replaced by bitter subzero temperatures.

Elk Summit Guard Station