more creeks...

we were supposed to cross the outflow of this lake - lake benson. it was a beautiful lake, fully thawed, even though we were walking through thick snow on the southern shore. when we got to the outflow the river was so high it was flowing into the lake...
















alex has already crossed the 'outflow', 12 oz is on this side...












fortunately, even though the path is underwater (and it's often underwater - annie saw a fish swimming up it at one stage), there were two I beams which hadn't been shifted by the torrents of water which shifted half the other solid (mostly) unattached objects in the area... you can't tell in this photo, but the water is a couple of metres deep at least, and flowing past the lake at a great rate, rushing straight for a waterfall 30m away. the bank dropped away underwater right next to the submerged path we were walking on...



this is the river further up, just above where we were supposed to cross (we didn't, we walked a mile upstream and crossed at a far more placid spot)... there's no reference point here, but it was a huge, furious wall of water, roaring down the canyon... we camped this side - it looked to cold for an evening ford...