Adventure on the Baptism River
On Friday Leah, Nolan, and I spent a few hours exploring on and around the Baptism River. We parked at the main lot at Tettegauche and made our way up the cascades trail. Shortly in to the hike, we went down to the shore, jumped on some rocks, crossed the frozen river (most of the ice in that spot was pretty thick so it was only a little alarming), and then continued up the shore by jumping on the rocks up that side. It was really cool looking at how variable the ice thickness and textures were at different points along the river. We spent a lot of time just adventuring and scurrying on the rocks/cliffs, and probably an equal amount of time just sitting, watching, and listening to the water. Of course we also did some botanizing and lichenizing. Lots of looking and adventuring, very few pictures for today. At one point Nolan and I climbed about 15 feet up a large white pine and hung around for a while. We both got full of sap, but I saw a new lichen species for me, so it was worth it....