WRC Team Trek: Leg Lake/ Stough Creek Pass Loop

Leg Lake Cirque

Checking the map, planning the next course. 

Casey scouts possible routes.

Casey and Karla look for Chuck's elk that he spotted on the rim of the cirque.

Elk?... If you click an zoom in on photo, you'll see it's a rock. 

It was pretty convinced though, from a distance.

Starring in awe!

Approaching the snow field that was our ticket out of Leg Lake or Roaring Fork Canyon.

Up we go!

Snow field and tennis shoes don't mix too well.  Fortunately this field was not too steep.

The view of the Stough Creek Lake drainage/ cirques unfolded as we popped up over the snow field.

A beautiful view of Wind River Peak awaited us after we clear the snow field.

More checking the map, figuring out where we wanted to go next.

We decided to go scope out the Leg lake cirque and couloir.

Chuck looks for fish in Leg lake.

Beautiful spot for lunch!  We left Worthen Meadows around 7:30am... and ended up here around noon (about 7 or 8 miles in).

Another look at the cirque (Chuck's elk rock was still grazing in the same spot).

I'm pointing at our cabin, you could see it from up there.

Arrow indicates our cabin.

Leg lake couloir (I've skied it twice).  This got my juices primed from another attempt some day.  It's pretty thin now, a couple of weeks earlier would have been better.

A classic line in Winds... for sure.  Also a very dominate feature- you can see it from Riverton.

The view on our way over to Stough Creek Pass.

On the move- Stough Creek Lake basin in the background.

Stough Creek Lake drainage

Wind River Peak

Around 4pm or so we finally made it back down to Roaring Fork Lake.  We ended up cover 15 miles in 8 to 9 hours.  Climbed about 3500 -4000 vertical feet.  A good day's trek no less- especially since half or more of it was off trail.

Casey crosses the Roaring Fork.

 Go Wind River Country Team!

Left to right:  Shad Hamilton, Chuck Schuster, Karla Wagner, and Casey Adams

See the video:  http://youtu.be/oJ05TRYpsAs