Thanks for watching. Hopefully you'll get out to the Bob. It's a great place to hike. Cheers.

We hiked the SBT in mid September 2021. It was a bit later in the season than we would have liked but those were the dates that worked for us. The stretch through the burned area wasn't bad at all, there was (obvious) flagging which had been placed and we actually added to it with a roll of flagging tape that I took along. The trickiest part(s) was where the river had washed out the trail in several places. But if you're careful and watch for cairns you shouldn't have any trouble. We got lost for 15 minutes one day but if we'd been paying more attention to where the trail was headed we would have been okay. Apparently the SBT was cleared last summer (2023) by a crew on horseback after a big snowstorm that June.

We hiked this in mid September, 2021. The bridge was still intact across the corner of the lake so we had no problem there. Jonas Pass is beautiful.

Hey Niko! Good to hear from you. Thanks again for the use of your sleeping pad. I think without it I would have bailed at Many Glacier and headed home. The weather was amazing after that brutal snowy day. Cheers.

Dough: 2 cups all-purpose flour ... 2/3 cup water ... 3/4 tsp brown sugar ... 1/3 tsp quick rise yeast ... 1 1/3 tsp Olive Oil ... 1/2 tsp salt. I make the dough ball ahead of time and then freeze it and then take it out of the freezer just before going to the trailhead. If we're doing pizza on a hike it's always on the 1st night. Hope this helps!

2 cups All Purpose flour, 2/3 cup lukewarm water, 1/2 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp brown sugar, 1/2 tsp dry yeast, 1 1/2 tsp olive oil.

It took 8 hours for Mark to carve this.

I filter any water that I consume ... with my BeFree 1-litre water filter/bottle.

Go for it. No problem soloing.

Dan, from what I recall there's no food lockers there at that campsite. It seemed like it was a hiker/horse camp and there was a structure there where you could throw a food bag up onto, or at least throw a rope over and hang your bag.

I carry a canister of bear spray in a quick-release holster on one of my shoulder straps of my backpack. Some people carry theirs in their backpack, why I don't know. The natural inclination when charged by an adversary is not to put your hands behind you. Split seconds could be crucial. Firearms are not permitted in a lot of the areas (i.e. national parks) where I hike. I just got back from another 7-day hike today and we had two grizzly bear encounters, both during the day while hiking and - fortunately - both at safe distances (one was 150 yards away and when one of my group said "bear" the grizzly was already running up the hill away from us; the other was across the valley galloping on the same trail we were to use in the next several hours). Their sense of smell is incredible compared to a human's, I've read anywhere from 15,000-20,000 times better and able to detect prey from miles away. They both knew of our whereabouts long before we saw them. I do not have all the details about that grizzly attack last September that took the lives of the two people and their dog, but my guess is that the (25 year old female) grizzly saw the dog as prey and went after it and the couple jumped out of their tent to see what the commotion was about and got in the way. My bear strategy? I have a sense to yell out "Day-O" or "Yo Bear" while I'm hiking in "sketchy" areas (i.e. head high willows or in forest near a (loud) stream or river. I sleep with my bear spray canister in the tent beside the zipper of my sleeping bag and I have a small air horn hanging from the gear loft in my tent's ceiling.

Um, yeah, okay. Lol.

That sounds like a great hike/route. I'm thinking of returning to the Bob and doing a longer hike, basically a figure 8, with Gates Park in the middle of the 8, and heading up Rock Creek to the Wall from there. Good to hear nobody was harmed in your bear encounter. That must have been a real scare though.

Western Canada ... province of Alberta.

Hey Andrew, late September - weather behaving - will be an awesome time on the Rockwall for you. The trail was covered with larch needles when we hiked there in mid October last fall. Enjoy the adventure!

Thanks JJ. Hope we get a decent weather window for the larch viewing but honestly am looking so forward to this Devon Loop you did maybe even more so. @@jjinthemountains369

Mark's been carving for 40+ years. He seems to be in pretty good shape. Gotta be, to do stuff like that! Thanks for watching, andrewb.