170 as can be seen we have our sleeping bags, plenty of reading material & good food. We are so glad to be away - not a thing bothers us & that's perfect for a first hike before dark. It was interesting to see the way red F.D. prepared for rain. He rolled an immense log (with feet built of huge blaze around it in such a way that it would burn underneath the log. When it does get well started, the rain can fall directly upon it and the fire will burn regardless for the log is continually being hollowed out below beneath the rain. All this P.M. he have slept, ate, read & written - a lazy life but a happy one & even if the rain is patterning momentary we are warm & comfortable. It is fine country we are in, with a branch valley to the west leading up to an open rise, partly sites sparsely covered with bunch trees. To the east, the main valleys loses itself in a heavy spruce forest.