Big day. We woke up below the pass and as usual, walked by plenty of nice dry camping spots further along the way. We descended the drainage and joined the Tinayguk River, which we'd heard might be big and powerful. It wasn't really an issue since we were so close to eh headwaters, but we had to follow it 10+ miles and pass lots of feeders. It didn't really have much of a gravel bar to it, and the rocks were slippery as snot, so I didn't like crossing it. We stayed on the left side for a while, first on a bench, then on good moose trail. We eventually switched over to river right, climbed onto a ledge and just shwacked and shwacked and shwacked. Sometimes the game trails were good, sometimes they weren't.
So after maybe 12 miles of mostly shwacking, we crossed over into our next drainage and climbed up to the pass above Inukpasagruk Creek. I underestimated how long it would take, but it was far less crappy rock than many other climbs. A nice frozen lake greeted us at the top and a mellow descent. We hit 20 miles for the day and stopped after 8pm. There was not a single cloud in the sky and it was nice and warm. We cowboy camped under the midnight sun, but set and alarm for 11:30 pm so we actually planned to be hiking under the midnight sun.
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Saw a ton of these pre-bloom north of the Divide. South, in bloom!
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Big valley to descend!
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We saw two moose this day
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Bushwhacking is good times!
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