Up hill climb

The mountains are coming into full view now, so very lucky that un like the cascade range this is a more relaxed gentle slope, it's up hill make no mistake but not straight up as it was, I was at about 2000 feet in the pocatello Idaho area, now I'm hovering around 6,800 a few more thousand feet as I make my way towards the continental divide...where I fully expect to see some remnants of snow, as of now there is no further snow predicated, it that happens I'll wait it out before starting the trek