Here is a sweet account of one of the earliest Beyond trips. A lot of things have changed at Beyond over the last 35 years but the adventures and the memories still last a lifetime.
Awesome trip!
Incredible weather--sun the entire time! One Eye ascent...spent the night of the Fourth of July on the summit and watched the fireworks of the campers down below at Malibu. We signaled the campers with some lights. Our friends down below at camp saw us and all screamed! Their voices were carried up the inlet and canyon and we could hear them!
The day before, we had spent the night on the snow, just above tree line. We were very fortunate to see a copper-colored wolverine drinking water in a pool of ice-blue water just above the tree line after we climbed up out of the mud and rain in the rainforest on the first day!--the only wolverine in the wild I've ever seen!
The next day we summited One Eye and spent the night there.
In the morning we then hiked across a knife ridge, then down onto the BonBon Glacier! Incredible views!!! And that glacier was amazing--so flat!! Spent the night on a sun-warmed slab of granite.
Our last day we traversed the stream above the waterfall at the end of the Princess Louisa Inlet and spent our last night in the cabin next to the stream. It was so powerful and so beautiful.
When we got down to the inlet the next day, we all jumped in for an ice-cold but refreshing swim & bath! And ate a steak dinner! I think the best steak I've ever tasted!
Awesome trip with great people, enjoying the great outdoors made by a Great God. Thanks Young Life and counselor Steve Murray from Willow Glen High School in San Jose, California!
--Dana Schilperoort
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