not dead yet

saturday afternoon we left for driggs idaho, much like jackson but smaller, less tourists.
we spent the afternoon at the used book store and wandering around town until we decided to begin our hike up devils stairs. the stairs weren't bad, the flys could drive a man insane. we pitched our tiny tent and crawled inside. we awoke, sometime later, to find people on the trail and our bags scattered where we left them. these things happen. a nice sunset. sunday afternoon we threw food in a plastic grocery bag, this is how we've begun carrying our food. not exactly hip, but it works. we also each carry a nalgene. a few weeks ago i read an article about water purification in backpacker and since we've given to drinking straight from the stream or spring. no one has died yet. arriving along the top edge of the alaska basin we constructed a snowman. possibly wilderness blasphemy but we had a good laugh indeed. moose sighting even without moose calls. the flys begin to attack again. rock collecting. not really any idea how far we walked..somewhere between 5 and 25 i'm sure. we were hiking in the jebediha sp? wilderness area; a bit different environment than the gro ventre even so close by. it was beautiful.
only 4 weekends left until we begin our traverse of these united states for a second time.
Snakes on a plane. does anyone else find this to be an awful idea for a movie? civilization ha.