I got a young hunting partner this year. He has 20 winters and is eager enough that he shouldn't wimp out. While its romantic to take your wife with you, be careful. I am going on two trips. One into a land where you walk in on rocks and alders-the magic kingdom. One into a land of ice and rock-Mordor. Both trips should be awesome.
Jerry- I am going up the West fork again in September, this year. Last year, it was the nastiest, wettest trip up there. My wife hurt her c3 and c4 vertabrae in a stumble and had to have spinal fusion surgery. We had one good day and were under the cathedrals when it cleared up just for an hour.. We just were ready to bust up there when the ram busted us. We saw some small goats but then the weather socked us in and it got really freaky. We had a monster deluge and some of the big boulders the size of dumpsters started rolling. It made it for some real action.
