Those mountains appear gorgeous and scary at the same time.
Last two photos (the one where you walking along the path between the pines and the one with marmot) are my favorites. 🙂

BTW - your story about people who went hiking unprepared reminded me of many similar cases in my country when mountain rescue service is alerted just because some people irresponsibly went hiking, especially in the coastal part of the country and during summer time (believe it or not) even wearing just flip flops!