Steamboat Springs, CO to Grand Lake, CO

We started off this section with a familiar face. Soren, from our Wilderness First Responder class, graciously put us up for the night, fed us, and got us back up to the divide. Thanks Soren. We were blessed with the most beautiful weather we've seen in quite some time. Four days of bluebird! In this section we traveled the top of the divide and made camp at 11400 feet the first night out. The mountains around us continue to grow in elevation, and it always seems that we drop 3000 plus feet in between them. We saw our first bear since Idaho. He was a huge, fat, and shiny black bear. We also saw several mountain sheep on our trek. Today we are hanging out at Grand Lake to hopefully wait out the "big storm". It's threatening up to 8 inches of snow in the mountain towns with 40 mph gusts. But, a sunny weekend is predicted, and so we will hopefully have a window to make it to Silverthorne; before we need our shred sticks.