Little Devil Teebone Ridge

We hiked the trail to Monogram Lake up to this point, and then started off trail, heading up to this ridge.

Scott heading off trail.

This is what our route looked like. It is steep in places,and you have to use your hands, but not too bad.

Heading toward the ridge.

And now we are on the ridge. There's a trail up here.

This stuff looked like petrified wood to me.

We had dropped back down a little bit. Now we need to head up to this ridge.

It is a very smoky day!

Views of big mountains in all that smoke!

Scott about on the ridge. Doesn't the ridge look cool!!! Can't wait to get up there.

Cool looking ridge.

Cool looking ridge...with views!

And we can see Monogram Lake from the ridge. And a bright red blueberries patch!

Me.

Little Devil Monogram Lake

I looooove ridge walks.

Looking back on the ridge.

I like this picture. Scott is upper left.

Scott taking a break on the ridge.

The ridge ends up here. That's a glacier below ~ can't remember the name.

Strange looking thin wall.

We had intended to make it over to the Little Devil (peak on the right), but we don't make it. We try from down below, a different route, but it doesn't go.

Not much of a glacier.

Scott climbs up a big pile of rocks.

Hey, I think that is Snowking! We were just at the summit a few weekends ago!

Instead of following the ridge back, we had bushwacked down to the lake. It was kind of a tough bushwack, traveling over many game trails, and I stepped over many bear droppings on the way. We get to here and see a bear! He is right at the water on the right side. We head over to the far right out of this picture to try and get away from him.

The bushwack was much harder than I thought it would be. We tried to avoid the bear,and so headed right, but couldn't continue on that side of the lake since it was all cliffs. We are getting closer to the lake here, but it still takes awhile longer. We have to head left ~ watching out for the bear!

Well, we end up seeing the bear again! And he is BEAUTIFUL! Turns out he is a cinnamon color brown bear (black bear species). I get a good look at him from above as he splashes through a pool of water running away from us. No hump. Not a grizzly, although he sure looks like it! He's in this picture but hard to see.

We finally make it to the lake, and jump in. Refreshing! The rock you see in the water is a great jump off point.

Bear after he ran away from us. Okay, I need to get a telephoto lens.