Pintlar Wilderness first backpack trip for the boys found alpine happiness.
Prideful Postscript: Since that trip both boys have taken big bull elk. Grandson on the right won the MSU rodeo calf roping and took second in team roping last weekend. His cousin on the left broke the pole vault record for Rocky Mountain College in Billings. Not related to alpine happiness ... but still worth noting. 'Good on them!
My youngest son & I at Donut Lake, atop the Continental Divide in Colorado's Weminuche WA with a couple of the 14teeners in the background. My son is now 57.