Wind River Odyssey (Great Outdoors)
Wilderness excursions don’t always go exactly according to plan. Weather and
conditions can mean a quick shift to Plan B. When things do go wrong on a
backcountry trip, it can be annoying, but in certain situations the change of
plans is not always a bad thing. That’s what I learned on a recent foray into
the stunning Wind River Range earlier this season.
Having just done the Teton Crest Trail a few years ago, I was eager to sample
Wyoming’s other signature range, the Wind Rivers. Multiple locations there are
worthy of exploration, but it was the legendary Cirque of the Towers, a remote
mountain bowl harboring a cluster of 12,000 foot peaks– including Pingora,
the Watch Tower, and Wolf’s Head–that had long beckoned me. But 2011 was an
epic snow year in the Winds, and no one was coming in over Big Sandy Pass, the
usual route, in early season. That meant approaching from the east side, up
the North Fork of the Popo Agie River, where no high passes block the route
between the road’s end and Cirque of the Towers.
And when I learned that a local rancher, whose …
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