And yet. And yet this year the festival of the boot has been ruined, yes ruined my little Instruments, by an insidious interloper; the pretend boot, which is to say, the noxious practice of wearing black, knee length socks with kitten heels to create the impression of a boot from a distance, which soon resolves itself into calumny and betrayal and bitter disappointment upon closer inspection..

We used Wrangell Mountain Air out of McCarthy for an overnight trip up to Iceberg Lake with St.