mt wells and mt macdonald

Today, nice cool, sunny day, I hiked up and over Mt Wells, down the draw across Humpback road and up Mt Macdonald to just over the summit. About 1700 feet in elevation in all. Not a Grouse grind but not too bad a climb. One day i will go back over Mt Wells when I have more time. 3 hours is not quite enough time.
    The wind was coming from the interior so it was getting cooler and icicles were forming on the dripping cliff ledges. I only wore a T-shirt and My Hoody, so the wind was blowing through and it was hard to keep warm when I wasn't climbing. My hands stayed quite cool the whole trip and thought I should have dressed a little warmer. Once out of the sun and down in the valley it felt even cooler.

 Very few birds were around, an immature bald eagle on Mt wells, was the only thing encountered there.
On Macdonald  a single Robin was scolding something down below the summit. A Pileated woodpecker flew through the valley on the west side and few minutes later a sharp-shinned hawk swooped down and landed for a few minutes on a snag before darting down through the tree tops.

I looked over to Mt Braden to see if any Golden Eagles were paying attention to one of the nests, but not. I headed back down to the valley encountering only a couple of deer browsing on the cliff  ledges.