Today is Carl's birthday - see his birthday cake to the right.  The Mowich Lake campsite is a combination backpack and car camping site.  It reminded us more of a parking lot (and the guidebook indicates that it is the old parking lot)!  There are permanent toilet facilities, which were welcome.

This day is essentially two parts - the first part of the day is down-down-down and the second part is up-up-up.  Also required is negotiating the Mowich River.  There was no bridge so we had to cross on fallen trees.  The river was swollen from glacier melt and the fallen trees didn't have handrails!  The previous day we ran into a Boy Scout troop, who indicated that when they crossed the fallen tree in the PM the water was lapping it!  Talk about pucker factor.

Birthday on the Trail
OK - it's really a power bar and emergency fire starters (candles)

Crossing S. Mowich River
Crossing river swollen by glacier melt