It's the eve of our Teton trip and I'm giddier than a school girl at a middle school dance. We have all of our supplies meticulously organized on our dining room table and are just finishing stocking up before we pack it all up this evening. A couple of things I'm really glad we've accumulated for these types of trips include the Osprey pack air porter, Sawyer water filter (though Aaron wants to buy a pump instead, says its too slow), and my 15 degree sleeping bag. The air porter bag was an accidental gear purchase that turned out to be a great mishap. We bought it last year for our trip out to Glacier thinking they were rain covers, but when we opened them up at home, we commented how handy it would be to be able to fly our packs out already packed up. That works, so long as you don't exceed the 50 lbs required by the airline.
We have some new gear for this trip - in particular a set of three new dry bags as we will be going at it via canoe. Our itinerary is as follows:
Fly in Wednesday afternoon, camp in/around Gros Ventre camp ground.
Thursday morning, pick up rented canoe, paddles, life vests, etc and drive to the String Lake trailhead where we will pack up the canoes and set out
By Thursday afternoon we will have portaged over to Leigh Lake and to our campsite #13 for Thursday night
Friday morning we will pack up the canoes again and head to the north end of Leigh lake, where we will stash our canoe and hike on foot to Bear Paw Lake for a 2nd night of backcountry camping.
Saturday we canoe back to String Lake and crash at The Alpine House for a luxurious end to our trip.
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