Lower Great Range and Balanced Rocks
with LaFarm Garden Students
July 2015

Trailhead was full. so we parked 1.6 miles away	onto trail	descending
to the river	crossing quickly	or cautiously
reaching a waterfall	climbing around it	a rest
slightly upriver	onto Bennies brook	a scramble looming
a rest with some view	onto open rock
the slide ahead	views behind too	rock fault
attempt at a wet scramble	wisely picking another route	carefully stepping
between the slippery spots	a scramble	boulder seat
a traverse	a climb	more climbs
and more	a rest	with a view
a scramble	following a dike	a smile
last	scramble	to the top of the slide
we find the ridge trail	which brings it own scrambles	selfie on Lower Wolf Jaw
more	climbing	and hiking
to upper Wolf Jaw where we lunch	a ladder	to climb on the way to
Armstrong	where we pose	soon enough resting on Gothics
with its alpine vegetation	mountain sandwort with a view	mirror lens portraits
	we pose	clouds loom
last vantage from Gothics shoulder	into a crevise	with a view
time to descend steeply	sometimes	with a
cable handhold	or a long	staircase
a snag on the slide	graceful river crossing	next day, to balanced rocks
to the trailhead	first view	upward it goes
resting	last ascent	gardenlike walk
stone arch	down the rabbit hole	into the crevise
under the rock roof	Peter's	turn
resting	selfie	leap
leap	timer shot	a step
we descend	and stop at crowded split rock falls	to rest
or perch	and jump