Badlands IV

After the Bison traffic jam, I headed back to the campground, hoping to run into some of my friends from the previous evening. As I pulled in, I saw Chris and Brooke, and I think they were as happy to see me as I was to see them. As I have learned on this trip, while you meet amazing people everyday, finding people that you have enough in common with to hang out and spend time with can be a rare thing. The three of us sat around all night, discussing all the important things you talk about while in the wilderness. Sort of like sitting around the hallway in the dorms again. Brooke wanted to interview me for some sort of photodocumentary journal thing she is thinking about doing as a book someday. Once she started aiming the camera at me, I had to get my cameras and return the favor....

As we were all headed roughly in the same direction and going to similar places, we talked about meeting up in Glacier National Park in a few weeks to do some backcountry hiking, what with the grizzlies and all, hiking in a group is much safer. In a group, you can always push someone down and then run for it, so you always want to be with someone slower than you when in Bear country. It helps if you put an open container of honey in their backpack too.

The next day they were headed out, so we firmed up our plans to hang out in Glacier, we would try to coordinate through email, and using the voicemail on my cell phone. They would leave a message, and I would change my greeting to acknowledge, and they would confirm with another voicemail.