The first four miles from Summerland to Indian Bar cross Panhandle Gap, the highest elevation point of the Wonderland Trail. The whole section was pretty burly when I made it with strong headwinds, rain, low visibility and that is because I weathered out a thunderstorm complete with hail at the shelter waiting for these 'better conditions'. There is basically no shelter along the route and I had to open my pack and put on my puffy mid-hike due to the temperature which is pretty unusual since usually climbing a mountain produces plenty of heat. Anyway, we had a really cool little posse camped out at Summerland most of which was headed South and met back up at the Indian Bar shelter to defrost. From Indian Bar I crossed a little snow, but basically dropped into the woods and descended all the way to Nickel Creek, Box Canyon (and virtual civilization), and into Maple Creek.
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| Summerland meadow |
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| Standard visibility at a pass along near Panhandle Gap |
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| One of the frozen tarns I passed |
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One of the last shots I took before deciding there was just too much rain
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| Looking back at Panhandle Gap from Indian Bar - obviously lens was a 'bit' wet |
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| This was the view leaving Indian Bar - the snow leaving Indian Bar wasn't bad - again Panhandle Gap in the background |
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