Looking back down at Squaw Pass (11,200 feet elevation) you realize how much higher you have hiked on the CDT.
The only constant, it seems, on the CDT, is that your elevation will
soon change. Here you go down quite precipitously, and after passing 3
or 4 lakes in cirques, you again go up. The photo was taken just as we
entered a large boulder field which was home to countless marmots, which
shrieked their warnings out as we approached.
After the final uphill on our hike, we reached 12,760 feet, the highest
point on the CDT in this area of the Weminuche Wilderness known as "In
The Bend."