We really like them. Not to mention some more cousins. The first thing Bob did was drive us in his pickup truck to Chilkoot lake. The glaciers left a lot of spectacular lakes around in their retreat after the last ice age and this is one of the better ones. The water had that distinctly turquoise look that would become very familiar to us.
Mountains shoot up on either side of the lake and the tree line is only a quarter of the way up.
Above the trees is either bare cliff face or green meadows. The morning sun had still not risen above the mountains to the east so the sky illuminated the cliff faces in a strange way. The sky seemed to be evenly illuminated to a pale blue. I don't remember a single cloud visible. We used the binoculars to scan the highest green meadows for mountain goats but didn't see any.