Return to Microwave Mountain
November 30th (Saturday) It was another cold, clear, beautiful morning. We packed our hot lunch, bundled up, and got ready to head out. We were heading back to microwave mountain, there were many more areas up there that we could explore, and also it was the last day of grouse-hunting season, and after having seen them three times yesterday, we thought it would be nice to have some grouse for dinner. We figured it was a win-win situation for us, whether we got one or not, it would be a beautiful day of hiking. We decided to take Kiki over to the trail this time, and when went to get in there was frost over everything. We used our ice scraper, which we have for cleaning the bottom of our boat, to scrape off the frost from the seats. We then used a cloth to dust off the majority of it from the pontoons; the frost was about 1/4" thick. Our poor outboard was quite cold for starting, but once it was fully warmed up, we headed out. Instead of going to the normal trailhead, we went...