Death Canyon, Teton, WY

Took a day hike up Death Canyon today. Stunning view of Phelps Lake from 7200 ft with a glassy morning surface. Was fighting to get over snow here and there, and eventually lost the trail in an impassible, sheer, deep, steep snowbank, where trying would have meant a certain slip, and landed me in the churning and swollen snowmelt river. Prudence won the day over certain death. Still a 4 hour hike, plenty of steep terrain.

You know it’s a good sign when…I didn’t get a shot of the previous sign, RVs and Trailers forbidden, winding and narrow road.