All Alone

Well , Nettie has left me here in Alaska to fend for myself. She took her cat and left. I went to the park by our apartment and got a picture of her plane leaving, and then I went out for a drink. When I got up the next day I realized that Nettie was not here and decieded to make the best of it. I drove to the one area we had been too that Aparently scared nettie so much she didn`t want to go back( narrow dirt roads with steep drop offs ), Hatcher Pass. I went to an old gold mining town and climbed up to an old gold mine.I then drove to the highest point I could get to via dirt roads in the cobalt, and climbed another mountain. Great view from 5000 feet, but I should have worn some warmer clothes and taken some rain gear. I spent well over an hour climbing straight up mostly on trail but sometimes scrambling over scree ( slippery broken pieces of rock ) to get to the next highest level. There was a beutifull valley about half way up that had a series of four stepped lakes feeding into each other before going over a cliff in a waterfall. It was incredible. There was nothing up there but me and some unidentifed animals about the size of a cat. when I got to the top I noticed some clouds moving in around me and that is when I started getting wet. The wind was blowing hard and apparently I had climbed higher than the lowest clouds and they were moving towards me. it was pretty cold because I was only wearing a tee shirt and windbreaker Thats what I get for climbing unprepared. I decieded to get down and get down fast! it took me less than half an hour to get back to the parkinglot. I could have gotten down much faster, but probably not in one piece. I then took some pictures of flowers and went home. What a fun day in Alaska.