Fording a stream, creek, or river is quite stressful. If you fall you could get hurt, you’ll definitely get soaked, and your pack will get soaked too. A soaked hiker is a cold hiker and you need to worry about hypothermia. Most are just little streams, but some are full rapids. Did I say they are STRESSFUL! Right now I’m camped beside a raging river which hopefully tomorrow morning will be less raging. My shoes are wet and they don’t have time to dry by morning. So I just assume they’ll be wet all day long.

Update: The next morning the raging river was still raging. Although I was told that in the morning the river would be lower, because the source above would be frozen, this was not the case. I should have crossed it the night before. Oh, and my shoes were frozen solid which made getting them on very difficult.

Can you see the trail? It’s covered in snow. So you carefully, very carefully, walk down the snow covered slope. Can you see the foot prints far far below? Mine will be shortly added to those.

I didn’t take any pictures of Glen Pass. After the pass this is a suspension bridge over the Wall river that was just rapids. I slept here with two other hikers, Ninja Tank and Random. The rapids were continual white-noise.