As we climbed we scared up six or seven grouse. It was fun to watch where they landed and then throw rocks to get them going again. Just when we figured that was the last one, another would burst out of the bushes.

At the head of the basin, the tread disappears in high grass, but you make for a steep sand gulley ahead of you. If you climb high, you find a steep path tromped into the sand. Kyle named this the "Sandbuster" which is in the photograph above.