Hey guys, we're at the West Tensleep Trailhead in the Bighorn Mountains and we are headed up to Misty Moon Lake
in Cloud Peak Wilderness and
we're hoping tomorrow to hike up to Cloud Peak to the summit, so we'll see how we do.
Anyway, here we go. This is the start of the trail
This little lake here is West Tensleep Lake
It looks like we're gonna hike right past it as we go
Alright
we're getting ready to cross our first creek here
see how it goes
Alright here goes, just watch your step
Well, the water actually feels pretty nice.
Don't fall down!
Alright, we're putting our shoes back on and we're gonna keep going.
Alright, we have made it to the wilderness boundary. Cloud Peak Wilderness. What do you think?
I'm tired.
We're coming up on a boulder field now
It looks like those mountains are about 5 minutes away but they're a lot further than that.
Alright we're three miles in now we're still having fun so far.
Back in the timber again, as you can see you're still plugging away. So a
little bit we'll be halfway there.
Alright we're four miles in now
Still going up. I think we're just about 9,800 feet in elevation right now
Trail 97 split off.
Okay, that's the West Tensleep Lake. So far we've hiked up to here. Now we just hit banks of Lake Helen.
We'll try to make it up here tonight.
Tomorrow, Cloud Peak.
Alright, this is Lake Helen. We will continue to plug on through.
Don't fall down buddy.
Onward and upward.
All right, we're on the upper end of Lake Helen now.
See there's still snow up there
Do they take off? All right there.
All right, we have hit the shores
of Lake Marion.
Almost six miles in.
Probably another mile, maybe a little bit more tonight and then we'll set up camp.
All right guys we have made it to Misty Moon
and we're going to hike in a little further yet.
We're going to find a campsite here before too long.
So that's where we're at.
It's about 5:25, so it took us just over three hours to get up here.
6.74 miles right now.
All right, I'm just going past Misty Moon Lake
and we're going to hike over this next hill I think. Try to get another mile back in there.
This'll be about eight miles total today.
We're starting a downhill trek here to the bottom of this. We're gonna try to find a spot down by the
creek below
and set up camp.
Nolan's got himself some beef stroganoff. We're eating it as we're walking because he got hungry.
So,
Look how beautiful that is!
And up there it's Cloud Peak.
Tomorrow we're gonna attempt summit Cloud Peak.
This big Canyon right here. It is super incredible up here. It was so pretty. Down there as a waterfall
Okay, they have a little water to cross here.
Closer to the waterfall, I'll probably be setting up camp somewhere around here.
There's a little lake down there.
I think Solitude Lake is down there somewhere and then Battle Park.
Alright, the waterfall's right behind us and we're gonna set up camp right here.
Tomorrow morning hopefully, we'll head up that mountain.
I think Nolan's trying to catch fish with his hands.
There's a cool little waterfall. We'll hear that all night because our tent is right there.
We got camp all set up and we're just relaxing a little bit before
we head on into bed. Suns starting to go down a little bit.
It's about seven o'clock.
It ended up being about four hours to get back in here. It was a little bit over eight miles. So
anyway, we had a good trip and
Hopefully tomorrow goes well.
It's almost 1 o'clock and we just broke camp and we're heading out
We have to go all the way up there.
Around to get back to Misty Moon.
Oh wow, this hill,
coming up out of that valley there for
Painted Rock Creek is
intense!
It's relentless!
We've already came up quite a bit of elevation here. Pretty soon we'll be going mostly downhill for the rest of the way back.
We're almost back down to Misty Moon I can see it right over there.
What is that? Big ole bull moose. Two bull mooses.
Well, we're still hiking away we're just going past Lake Marion.
Guess we'll continue going. We're hoping to make it back to the truck tonight. Let's see...
Just now going past Lake Helen. This moose is only about 60 yards away.
Well, it's 4:30 and we are
almost back to the truck. So it's not blocked in which is good. This parking lot over here is a mess.
They have these long lines for
parking and if you're stuck in the middle somewhere,
good luck getting out of here when you get back. That's why I parked way back here.
Not sure what else you should do
But anyway,
did you have a good time buddy?
yeah
We are both tired out and ready to get home. So thanks for watching