This is it then.  The last day of summer/first day of fall.   It’s all over at 7 PM today.

Yeah right.  It’s time to put the throttle down and get things done more like.   Today we’re going to make a scoping mission off of Reco Peak down to Sandon to check out the ground for a potential future trail.

We’re going over there, eh Mike?

Yup, we’re really guiding now.  As there’s no trail, it’s a bit more challenging dropping in.

We had some fun roaming around the ridges in the alpine. This is called “assessing.”

I’ve been hearing about this zone here for a while, and Buehler shot some nice lines here recently.   I think there might be some possibilities here for a few more lines, what do you think?

Mike found a couple here…

There are a million old mining roads to access this zone, and plenty of old cabins and such.  Here’s one of the better known ones near the Mercury Mine.

Looks like there’s a bit of undergrowth to deal with in a few spots, but I’m thinking we’ll be fine putting a new trail in here.

So there you go (it’s the orange line in case you’re confused).  7700′ of descending, and with all our little explorations it worked out to about 24 km.  Not a bad way to spend a Monday.