tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58150086736316829892024-03-12T23:55:27.538-07:00PackslingerPhotographic AdventuresPackslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-26566138800092477322017-11-24T01:16:00.001-08:002017-11-24T01:16:03.914-08:00Goblins! <br />
Wind howled, sand scoured and clawed at the windows as the fearless adventures drove the final section of road before the junction. They had heard of the Goblins, but they didn't truly comprehend the danger that awaited them at their final destination. Darkness enveloped them as the sun retreated from encroaching night. Their destination was know, the danger was not!<br />
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No that I've got the overly melodramatic out of my system! Two good friends of mine and I took some much needed time off of work and I needed to get back into some landscapes. I had a back injury I've been nursing and I felt now was the time to make my return to the wild. Where is a great place to visit in November with a cold front rushing towards you. You head for the desert and away from the approaching snow. Like usual, all of the weather oracles were scaring the populace, by declaring "stormmageddon" was on it's way and we are all going to die. The warning of six to eight inches was all for not, and the valley snow never fell. The wind was terrible however and it battered us all the way there.<br />
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We made it to are campsite and had plenty of time to set up camp. We started a fire and dinner, just as the wind died down. It was cold and dropped into the twenties. I use a canvas tent and heater, so we slept quite well. When we awoke and after breakfast, we headed straight for Little wild horse slot canyon. Like nearly all slot canyons, they start wide and get narrow the deeper in you go.<br />
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The trailhead had quite a few vehicle and we were a little surprised by this due to the cold temperatures. The sun was out and the skies completely free of clouds, so we were very excited by the prospects of what we were about to see.<br />
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The entrance was very muddy, so we elected to head up to the left and two the junction between Little Wild horse and Bell canyons.<br />
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We took little wild horse because we suspected water and mud in Bell.<br />
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The fearless adventures, well nearly, fearless. Jami, Cory, and myself.<br />
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About halfway in we did find some graffiti scratched into the walls. I can't believe people still do this!<br />
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No matter how you feel about cairns, some people hate them in way I'll never understand. I liked the textures, so I took this picture. I left them as I found them simple because I know they will not survive the next flood inside the canyon.<br />
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We did not go all the way to the end of Little wild horse and turned around to go visit Goblin Valley state park. It took an hour or so to get out and the sun was on it's way down when we made it into the park. The light was nice, but was changing rapidly, so we hurried through the valley shooting.<br />
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After the last light left the valley, we headed back to camp and were in our bags after a couple hours chatting about the days events in front of the fire. The next morning we broke camp and left the area better than we found it. Jami and I took the scenic route 24 through Capitol reef and scoped out a possible area for our next adventure.<br />
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Near the park HQ, we saw this goodlookin' fella. What luck!<br />
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After a couple hours, we headed home. What a great trip and it was quite nice putting my hiking boots back on!Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-60885184299486569912017-05-15T14:30:00.000-07:002017-05-15T14:30:19.926-07:00Reflection Canyon<h3>
A final trip before my son joins the Air Force.</h3>
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It has been too long since I have really spent any time in the back country! I rediscovered another blogger that I admire and her recent post about Reflection Canyon. That post can be found here: http://www.girlonahike.com/2017/04/backpacking-to-reflection-canyon.html. After seeing her post, I had to go shoot it! I have been exploring portrait photography for long enough now that my soul ached to capture something epic!</div>
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I had planned on going alone, a few weeks earlier, however my son decided he wanted to go. We made our plan to leave on a Friday, however a work emergency changed that, so Saturday was our next option. The planned Saturday arrived and of course we left later than desired and began the very long drive to Escalante Utah. Escalante isn't on the way to anywhere, it's a place you have to want to go to. You'll spend at least have the time on a two lane highway. </div>
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Once we made it to Escalante, we loaded up on a few snacks and headed farther south down Hole in the rock road. This is the infamous, brutally wash boarded in some areas, road that takes forever to drive. It was eight pm when we finally reached the trail head. Too dark to hike an unfamiliar desert at night with just head lamps you say? You're absolutely right, I highly discourage any sane and pain hating person from hiking anywhere in the dark. However, pain is my constant companion as of late and as my wife can attest, sanity is something I have in short supply!</div>
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We slung our packs, donned our head lamps and located the trail to began the trek. There is a trail and we lost it quite a few times, but not for long. I do not recommend wearing shorts on this trail due to the sage brush and cacti that dominate the landscape. It seamed the sage brush did not want us there and took their best shots to punish us if we walked by too close. I ended up with quite a few nasty scratches over the eight miles. Despite the drawn blood and the occasional rock trying its best to trip us, we made it to the canyon. It was about two am when the tent was set up and I was out immediately the moment I entered my bag. I never take an alarm clock because no matter how much high tech, ultra gear I by, i never sleep well in the back country, so an alarm clock isn't needed. I did, however manage a solid three and a half hours that night. I awoke at about five forty five and went looking for my shot. I love all of the other photographs I have seen of this place, but I needed my version and after about a half hour of walking around I settled on a spot. I took about thirty shots total trying to mange the look in camera, because over the few years I have been shooting, I have discovered that in order to get an epic processed photo. It has to be perfect in camera!</div>
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Here is the final imaged and just as the sun crested the far ridge. This is why I punish my body, so when I'm old and feeble, I'll have thousands of memories to look back on!<br />
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Sheer awe is how I felt at the moment I took this photo! The brilliant colors in the rock, along with the yellow light rising from the east, warmed my soul! The air had a slight, pleasant chill as I sat and waited for the sun to make itself known. It had been a warm night and despite the scratches and dried blood on my legs, I was really glad we hiked in late that night. I wasn't looking forward to the sun beating down on us the eight miles out.<br />
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Once the sun rose, I took a few additional shots, just to play around with some lens flares! Hollywood seems to be all about them as of late!<br />
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It took a little over four hours to hike the eight miles and I was feeling the extra 12 lbs of camera gear and serious amounts of water necessary to hike in this heat. We made it back with a couple liters left over. My recommendation in to go in April or the fall for the best experience, unless of course you have pack mules to carry the water needed!<br />
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<span class="mceItemHidden"> The Crystal lake trail head in the Unitas is one of my favorite places in Utah, it's very challenging finding a place to park. It would be great if the forest service would quit allowing the Washington lake campground from making the trail head parking area, its overflow parking. Luckily, my son, Coltin and I, planned are little excursion on a Sunday, so the trail head was only around ninety percent full. My son tends to have to work on Saturday so we just planned to-day hike, no real plan, just exploring an area I have always want to check out. We both drove so we could just make it a trough hike and so we could cover the twelve miles and do it all down hill! Little did I know that the upper section of the trail is seldom used and the trail peters out in several places, so we ended up doing a little bushwhacking to get back on track. The toughest part of this trail--passing up the waterfalls and not taking in all the beauty!</span></div>
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Below is the second group of falls, the first I plan on saving until next year, when the water level is higher and the water flows will be greater. So you're going to have to settle for this one, not that it's a bad one!</div>
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The third falls had two small drops and with the surrounding colors, makes up for the lack of size.<br />
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The sporadic trail, meandered trough downed trees, saturated marshes, and heavy timber. We followed the river as it continued to cut its way though the land, leaving many gorges in its wake. I pride myself of my ability to throw around cheesy puns, so it was nice to see that it had rubbed off on my son. It was a proud moment for me as we traversed one of the many gorges, and he proclaimed one of the deeper ones, it a "gorgeous gorge"! <br />
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I nearly missed this one, if I hadn't looked behind me at the river at the exact moment I did, I would have completely missed this gem, I can only imagine how many I missed on the sections the trail moved away from the river.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is definitely my favorite fall along the trail, and certainly the tallest one we came across.</span><br />
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This beauty, was found while trying to find the trail once again, it is also the first place we both slipped into the river, trying to rock hop. Despite the wet feet, this falls made up for it!<br />
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Shortly after the last falls, after finding the trail once again, the trail abandoned the river and just pierced it way through the remaining forest and descended around two thousand feet. At this point we started running into cattle grazing near and sometimes right on the trail, Most had calves with them, so we carefully negotiated the massive females eyeballing us as we passed by their young ones. </div>
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We left spooky and hiked back to the trucks; dreams of a greasy burgers sizzling in our minds. At this point we had surpassed the twelve mile mark on foot and we were definitely ready for anything that wasn't dehydrated. The only obstetrical that remained was the waiting mileage on the muddy, washboard road back to Escalante. After procuring our burgers, we headed over to the Escalante Petrified forest state park to camp and take a well deserved shower. The next morning, we packed up camp and had breakfast in town, before heading to calf creek falls trail head. </div>
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The final mountain range we crossed, was covered in snow and it obviously wasn't aware spring had already sprung. We got into Ceder City just before eight P.M. and settled into our hotel. The rain was still coming down and all of our gear was still soaked from last night's heavy rain. We were so glad we climbed out of Coyote when we did. That much rain makes slick rock even more so! The next morning, we grabbed out free hotel breakfast and headed south to Kanarraville. Jeremy and I were the only ones to ever visit the falls, so the rest of our groups was excited to see it. It is only a little less than two miles to the lower falls, so this last hike brought our total miles to over twenty for the trip.<br />
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One of the many, run off chilled crossings, necessary to reach the falls. <br />
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At the canyon opening, its time to forget being dry.<br />
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It was about eleven when we made it to the falls and the water level, mud, and light made any photography a serious challenge. Early spring or after the run off is the best time if you want pictures. <br />
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We all headed for home after making it back to the truck. Utah has such deserve weather and landscapes, so finding something to do all year long isn't difficult.</div>
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After the falls, I headed back to camp and made plans to do some Astro photography with the guys. We hit the tents early, hoping to shoot the Milky way. At about 12:30 am we awoke to a completely moonless and cloudless sky; unfortunately no visible milky way either.</div>
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First attempt with my 300 Lumen flashlight<br />
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The next morning the skies began to look very menacing and we decided to climb out early and check out a couple slot canyons. The climb out was still a little sketchy, however we brought a rope this time and Greg, Chris and Coltin scrambled up the sloping slick rock. The rest of us used the rope that was lowered down to us. At the beginning of my accent, my camera bag was hanging on my chest and wouldn't you know it, it snagged on a rock and I slipped and busted up my knuckles. It's a little tough to tightly hold a rope, with throbbing bloody fingers! Not to worry though, it was just a flesh wound.<br />
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Once out of the canyon, it was a short mile to the sandstone pour and then a mile through deep sand. Wow, does it suck to walk though deep sand! At the truck, we hand lunch and headed to the dry fork trail head.<br />
About two miles up the twenty mile section of the brutally wash boarded road, it began to rain and those wash boards became sticky mud, which coated the trucks! The rain stopped right as we pulled into the trail head, so we walked the two miles to Peekaboo slot and up we went, there is a 8ft climb at the beginning. I left the camera in my pack as we negotiated the canyon and at the top everyone started goofing around at the top of the canyon.<br />
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Coltin, clearly had the most air while jumping the slot.<br />
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As you can see, it is awful tight and the camera stayed tucked away to stay safe. These canyons like to scratch everything, including sun glasses!<br />
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About half way through we hit a boulder pile that required climbing for Chris, Greg, Jeremy, and Myself. Coltin and Shannon were able to squeeze through between the boulders without having to deal with the climb.<br />
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Right before the end of the canyon, we found the below cavern and small arch. Here's a couple versions of the shots I took.<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-58622900189481986402016-04-12T23:12:00.001-07:002016-04-13T20:51:36.674-07:00A tale of dirty slots, busted knuckles, and personal redemption!<h3>
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I had to return to Coyote and re-shoot my favorite waterfall, it's been roughly eighteen months since my last visit. Another chance to take some friends and have another adventure with my son. So, I began planning this in November of last year after a summer and fall of focusing on my photography skills. If you check out my earlier posts, you can watch my skills improve with each entry. Everything finally fell into place for me after my last trip to Southern Utah to visit Zion and surrounding areas. </div>
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This waterfall was my final test, as far as I was concerned (Kanarraville Falls).</div>
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The Coyote cascades (as I refer to them) just east of Jacob Hamblin arch, inspired my desire to improve my photography skills. I had read about a canyon in southern Utah, while googling warmer hiking climates and struggling with the winter doldrums. When I googled the gulch, up popped many different shots of this gorgeous waterfall, not a tall one, just a flowing cascade, but oh so beautiful. The one that stood out to me the most had received quite a lot of photoshop and the water's hue was changed to blue (i found out later it couldn't possibly be blue due to all the flour fine sand in the water). So I called my buddy Greg and we made plans for an April visit. When I returned and looked at all of the photos I had taken, I soon realized that I knew nothing about photography and I need to do something about it! </div>
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I spent that summer shooting waterfalls, joined a photography club, and watched hours and hours of YouTube. I spent most of early summer searching for waterfalls while out hiking until I discovered a set of five waterfalls that captivated my attention (also available on my blog). I made several trips to them trying to perfect my long exposure skills. Unfortunately though, I didn't really spend anytime making sure I was doing it right. Most of the time, my shots would be way overexposed, however I was able to fix them in photoshop, they weren't great. I like to shoot in the 15 to 30 second range and to this day, I still do not know anyone that shares the same style, so it's hard to compare my work. Half second shots will blur water, but it doesn't convey as much light or emotion, in my opinion.</div>
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As summer wound down, I decided I need to go back to Coyote and redeem myself! I had a few friends lined up to go, including my boy, however as the big day approached, they started abandoning ship. Even my own boy changed his mind! Undeterred, I knew I needed this shot to complete my soul! It may sound weird to those of you without a passionate hobby, but I needed this, and went by myself!</div>
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When I returned, and by this time fortunately, I had just began shooting in RAW format. I was able to salvage most of my shots from that attempt. The above picture is decent now, but not when I imported it into photoshop, it was over exposed and the focus isn't great throughout the whole image. At the time I was happy, until I discovered hyper-focal distance and manual focusing. This was a blessing and a curse, the blessing portion of it improved my shots exponentially. The curse part occurs every time I go back through my old photos! With my new found focus (pun intended) and a new camera, I gathered my son, a few friends, and headed back to Coyote!</div>
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The plan was set and I had five days off! Coltin and I picked up Jeremy around 2 pm and headed straight for Chris. By four pm, we were all loaded in my truck and began the five hour trip to Escalate, Utah. Man, that is a long drive and we reached our first camping spot and hit the bags for an early trek across the desert. We slept under the stars and wow, that was that beautiful way to fall asleep! </div>
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After filling out the permit at the trail head, we headed towards Jacob Hamblin Arch. The first mile is nothing but sand! It gets into everything and very tiring to walk through.<br />
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I call this the Pour, simply because it looks like the sand stone was poured onto the desert floor and dried.<br />
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Beauty in the middle of desolation.<br />
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The final approach, before our decent, down a 45 degree slick rock wall.<br />
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This was as much of the arch and surrounding walls I could capture in one 24 mm shot.<br />
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As you can see, the canyon walls are very tall.<br />
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After a brief exploration of JHA, we headed farther into the Gulch, to find a decent camping spot and visit my favorite waterfall.<br />
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We set camp close to JHA and the toilet, mostly because of the pack everything out requirement! We made it to my cascades soon after, however the light was very harsh and it was windy, as you can see in the images below. I usually wouldn't share these, however they are necessary for my story and relatively unprocessed. Notice the vignetting from my ND filter? It was stacked on top of my UV lens (I only use them in sketchy environments). Even with the bad light and wind, I couldn't resist taking some shots while everyone else had their cell phones out snapping away. Jeremy brought his DSLR along and I was able to help him capture a few long exposures. I knew I wouldn't be happy with these because of the wind, but I couldn't just stand there!<br />
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After a few shots, we made our was deeper into the gulch. The canyon had about half of the water it did, back in October of 2014.<br />
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A group shot in front of Coyote Natural Bridge.<br />
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Along the walls, you can find quick sand, as Chris happily demonstrated. He lucky it didn't keep his shoe!<br />
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The east side of CNB.<br />
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Low water level, indeed!<br />
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Broken Arch.<br />
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Jeremy found a small hole just after broken arch and posed for a picture.<br />
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Same hole, smaller explorer.<br />
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The wind began to slow, so we made our way back to camp and the cascades.<br />
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Here is my final image and my drop the mic moment. I had prefect light, the sky was full of clouds and almost no perceivable shadows. I manually focused my shot, adjusted my shutter speed to 30 seconds, dialed my aperture to F16 and pulled the trigger. When the rear screen flashed the finished photograph, it was all I could do to not tear up. I had finally done it, I new exactly what I wanted and how to do it, and on my favorite waterfall! One shot and drop the mic! Chris was there while I took the shot and I tried expressing what I was feeling, however I'm not convinced he truly understood. </div>
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-9104472613752899052015-09-17T20:07:00.001-07:002015-09-17T20:07:50.675-07:00Dry Fork and my first backpacking trip with my boy, revisited!<h3>
I was going through some pictures the other day and ran into some forgotten treasure!</h3>
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The first picture I opened was this one:<br />
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We actually took it on the way out and I wanted to capture the moment, normally I despise selfies. Coltin at 11 years old! With his hiking stick he made at New fork scout camp.<br />
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Not much of a story this time, I don't want to take away from my first post as it was my first post after all. I just wanted to share the pictures. These are just seven megapixel photographs from a point and shoot Canon. It did the job for this trip and help spark my current love of photography. My little boy is now almost seventeen and no longer this size.<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-38653472582027727772015-08-22T22:05:00.001-07:002015-08-22T22:14:13.604-07:00Skull crack and fury trail<h3>
A tale of love, life, death, and despair.</h3>
My brother-in-law mentioned that he was taking a few friends to see the Kokanee salmon run, I don't know a whole lot about this species of salmon, however I do know that they are basically land locked Sockeye salmon and as such, they only spawn once. After they spawn, the fish will die soon after, making for a tragic love story! During the process, they mutate from the pale silver color to a bright red body and climb as high as they can in the river and beget the next generation. Their urges are so great that they die during the process, imagine if humans went through the same ordeal!<br />
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The plan was to meet a little after eight and head for the trailhead on the east side of the Causey reservoir. Once the loading was done, we hit the road and after a couple needed stops, we reached our destination. It was just a little after ten and it was already starting to get warm. The other group headed in as he readied his children. Skull crack is only a little over two miles, so kids can typically handle the slow elevation gain and decent, however in this case his middle boy, about a mile in was complaining that his legs were hurting and he couldn't go any farther. He even proclaimed he wasn't going to make it, acting as if we should go on without him; so onto my shoulders he went. This was a first for me, as my son was only nine when he started hiking and he never needed help. My nephew, on the other hand, was laying it on thick too! Once the complaining started, every step he took, seemed to make his situation terminal. He is very light, so it wasn't a problem carrying him the rest of the way.<br />
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The smoke from the wildfires in California, Washington, and Idaho still plagued us, and today was no exception. The smoky haze made taking pictures a no go if I wanted them to turn out. So I kept the camera in the bag until we made it to the inlet. As we began the decent into the back of the canyon, you could see the Kokanee darting up the river as it flowed towards the lake. It was fun watching the fish struggle with the obstacles nature blocked their path with, ensuring that only the strongest will survive!<br />
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I walked up the stream about a half mile and found a little foot tall waterfall that the Kokanee were going to have to jump, in order to get any farther up the stream. I retrieved the tripod from my backpack and set up to shoot the coming acrobatics. The fish were still about twenty yards down stream and staging for the next section. The fish would load a section of river and once it was overcrowded, they would tackle the next obstacle. I waited as the pool filled, but none of the fish would jump the falls. The canyon walls were very narrow and I was losing the direct sunlight I wanted to get the fast shutter speeds needed to catch the fish in the air. After losing the light and having fish that just wouldn't cooperate; I gave up! This was around two, so we headed back towards the truck. The fish didn't want to play nice, however mother nature decided to be generous and provided a nice breeze out of the east; it cleared out most of the smoke. With the smoke abating, I finished the trail with camera in hand.<br />
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One of our trail marauders, Timber, no he isn't a cast member from the Mad Max, Fury road movie, he just has an eye condition that requires him to wear the goggles. He doesn't like them very much, so you have to watch him. He will knock them off if you're not looking; I have to admit he looks awful cool!<br />
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Sawyer, with his Dad in the background.<br />
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Carver, as you can see, the trail was very dry and dusty, he had collected half of it on his shirt and face.<br />
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The reservoir was full of kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards.<br />
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This time my Daughter joined me, she likes to take pictures, just like Dad.<br />
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She also enjoys doing staged landscapes with her Tigger in the foreground. She has become quite good at composing these shots, so I like to encourage her when ever I can. It was in the high eighties when we made it back to the truck, although it felt hotter. The same wind that was holding the smoke at bay, also coated us with dust and it was every where! Skull crack is a fun short hike, even without the fish!<br />
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<br />Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-19968507288479339232015-08-19T14:55:00.000-07:002015-08-19T23:06:19.679-07:00Eureka!<h3>
Eureka, Utah.</h3>
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I had work in the great town of Eureka, Utah. When my co-worker and I were finished with the job, We met Warren, the Treasurer of the Eureka Historical Society. Warren offered to show us a couple of places around town, while we were on our lunch break. The first stop was the old jail behind what I believe to be the original City Hall, however before that I ran into this old Diebold safe. As I was processing these photographs, they just seemed to scream--black and white!<br />
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After the jail, Warren took us across the street to the old Porter Rockwell cabin that was donated to the Historical Society from his family.<br />
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There are old mining artifacts all over town and near the museum, I could spend a day or two just walking around taking pictures!<br />
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<br />Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-19250460034129160522015-08-17T00:30:00.000-07:002015-08-17T00:33:36.824-07:00Cirque of the Towers<h3>
Wind River Range</h3>
This is hands down the most impressive place I have been, all of the mountains and all the peaks I have ever visited, do not hold a candle to these granite monsters. It is roughly 8 miles to Jackass pass, the gate way to the Cirque; backpacking heaven! The trip was planned six months ago and there were several people planning to go, however as the trip drew near, some of the participants had to bow out due to circumstances beyond their control and as of Thursday night, it was down to two! Tracy went to great lengths planning this trip and did a fabulous job.<br />
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I ended up having work in Rock Springs, so this allowed me to head straight for the trailhead right after work and not have to spend the additional freeway time. The trailhead had more cars than the average Wally world, so I had to park nearly half a mile from the register box at the trailhead. I just slept in my truck and was up just after seven am. Tracy and I, shouldered the packs and hit the trail; our plan was to base camp at Big Sandy lake.<br />
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A well worn trail greeted us.<br />
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Big Sandy river<br />
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Holy, Shiitake! Well okay, it isn't a Shiitake Mushroom, however in my defense, Tracy laughed at my pun! It was a big mushroom!<br />
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The forest thickened.<br />
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First glimpse of Big Sandy.<br />
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At the top of the lake.<br />
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The campsite.<br />
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Here is the fire pit at camp, as you can see, it has had many fires and the soot reaches nearly all the way to the top. I wonder how many fires there have been over the years!</div>
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We made it to Big Sandy around 11:30 am and managed to set up camp and have lunch, soon after, the clouds rolled in and began to threaten us.<br />
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We did a little fishing and caught several Brook trout, it was fast fishing, just like most high county lakes with them. Those Wind river Brook trout are very aggressive and will absolutely destroy a large dry fly floated above. Dinner was made and we discussed the trip so far and our plan for tomorrow. Soon the stars made their entrance, followed by the Milky Way. I had a persistent cloud that just wouldn't go away. So I just shot a series of night shots and climbed into my Hammock, if you look close you can see some of the Perseid meteor shower.<br />
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I tried to give my Hammock one more try and I just can't do it. I'm a side sleeper and that is nearly impossible for me. I would wake every couple hours either sore or cold from slipping off my pad, it was a rough night! I climbed out around seven and we had breakfast and were on the trail about nine.<br />
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The first glimpse of War Bonnet peak, it is the one on the right. The shark fin shaped peak to the left isn't named on my Beartooth Publishing map. We even check the Forest service 7.5 minute map and there isn't a name there either.<br />
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War Bonnet.<br />
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I thought I had a tough and expensive hobby, we met a couple climbers on the way. Their packs were heavier than ours and they just passed us by on the way to climb Pingora peak. That has to be pretty tough to hike in eight to ten miles and then climb a granite monster.<br />
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A little closer, the trail to Jackass pass is listed at about two and a half miles, however it took us just as long to hike the pass as it did to hike the five plus miles to Big Sandy.<br />
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The unnamed lake under shark fin.<br />
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Closer still, the trail at this point began to be hard to follow. <br />
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First glimpse of Pingora peak.<br />
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The first view of Arrowhead lake.<br />
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A look back and Tracy, close behind.<br />
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Arrowhead lake.<br />
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At the bottom of Jackass pass and A great view of War Bonnet and Warrior peak.<br />
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Pylon Peak is the next named peak.<br />
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Then there is Block tower, Sharks nose, Overhanging tower, Wolfs head.<br />
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Finally at the end of the Cirque is Pingora peak. All of this was visible from the trail just before beginning to cross over Jackass.<br />
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Arrowhead lake behind us as we climbed the very steep pass.<br />
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Once at the top of the pass, we had lunch and took a well deserved break. After lunch I climbed to the highest point nearest to me and took seven individual shots to later merge together into this!<br />
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Lonesome lake, sits below in the basin below the Cirque. It is a beautiful lake and the Forest services has regulated camping in the basin to protect the beauty of the area. It should be protected due to the popularity of the area. We did not descend farther into the basin, the fishing is supposed to be good for Cutthroat trout, however we just planned on day hiking to see the Cirque and we lost all desire to fish after hiking in. The trail back was almost as steep as coming in, we new it was going to be tough and wanted to get back to camp. Our goal was to see the Cirque and we accomplished that by 11:30.<br />
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There is a waterfall below the lake above as the water makes its way to Lonesome lake.<br />
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It took us about the same amount of time to make it back to camp, about half way there, a storm rolled through and rained off and on. As we hit the final switchbacks down, the storm cleared and once back at camp, Tracy and I discussed our plan for tomorrows exit. There was nothing keeping us there and the last five plus miles wouldn't be to bad tonight. So we decided to head out, I was relieved to not have to spend another night in the hammock. So I took a parting shot and we were on the trail about four forty five and back at the trucks about seven pm. Twelve total miles today and about eighteen for the whole trip. We went in at eight am Friday and were out thirty five hours later.<br />
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<br />Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-64932050766750232532015-08-09T21:17:00.000-07:002015-08-09T21:17:18.261-07:00Golden Trout<h3>
Forth attempt at the illusive golden trout.</h3>
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As some of you already know, my fearless companions and I found the lake referred to in Rich Osthoff's books last year. It was the prizes at the end of my three year hunt for the lake along with finally catching a Golden trout. Our first trip was a the lower section of the Wind River range to a lake mentioned briefly in his book and that attempt didn't pan out as we had hoped. Being most likely the closest lake, from any trailhead with Golden trout; we only saw small fry in the lake. After years of chasing and reading anything I could get my hands on, I later found out why we only saw the fry and nothing larger. Golden trout stay deep in the summer and are very spooky, so early in the their spring is essential to increasing your luck in catching a golden, let alone a big one. They can be caught later in the year if you find a lake over run with them, as we did last year at Dream's end (a name I gave to the lake where we finally caught them). The second attempt was thwarted by altitude sickness that we weren't willing to risk getting worse and on our third we hit pay dirt; sorry, I had to keep the Gold fever clichés going! The third attempt is chronicled here: <a href="http://packslinger.blogspot.com/2014/08/wyomings-wind-river-range-golden-trout.html">http://packslinger.blogspot.com/2014/08/wyomings-wind-river-range-golden-trout.html</a>.<br />
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Although we only caught small golden trout last year, we knew we had to return for another try, with only a week of vacation to use we looked into using Ace in the hole outfitters to get a to the divide, it saved us two days on our feet and after a few miles on a horse you appreciate why we used them before the invention of the car; fifteen miles only took us about a third of the time it would have taken us by foot. After "Ace", dropped us at our destination. He mentioned a horse back trip that would get us to within five or six miles of big Golden trout. After our forty plus miles on foot last year, that sounded like a pretty good deal, so we booked him for the first trip of the year, we had already proved we could find the fish and we will return to try the other lakes again, but we loved the idea of a guided trip without a heavy pack and sore feet! This is the story:<br />
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Oh, I remember it like it was last year, okay, so it was last year! A few days after returning from last years trip, my buddy Greg called and mentioned that he had spoke with another friend that works for a local television station and they had set up a trip to chase larger Goldens. Now, even though my feet and ankles still throbbed from the beating they had just received I agreed to go again. So the plan was set, My son, Greg, his two boys, and his TV buddy and a producer were set to go. The costs were low and we just had to wait for next July to roll back around.<br />
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A few weeks before our scheduled departure there was a problem and our TV buddy wasn't going to be able to come, Greg and I were not deterred, even after his sons were no longer available to go. So, now we were whittled down to three, if not us, then who was going to catch them golden trout! We arrived in Pinedale, Wyoming a little earlier than our outfitter had planned so we fished the Green for a few hours before grabbing dinner and a hotel until the next morning. <br />
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We meet them at 8 am in Pinedale for the long drive to the trailhead; once there we piled our gear on to some canvas tarps, as the outfitter loaded the bags, before saddling the horses and mules. There was only six of us now, and luckily Ace was able to accommodate the last minute change in participants. Once the gear was loaded we mounted the horses and hit the trail; fifteen miles later we made it to base camp.<br />
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If you have never spent time in the backcountry during long periods of rain, you may not understand how great it was having a tarp set up for a dry place to hang out. We would have been miserable the entire time without the shelter it provided.<br />
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Once camp was set up, our cook went straight to work on feeding us, the only thing we had to do was set up our own tents and sleeping gear. "Cookie" as we referred to him for the rest of the trip was quite the riot and even put up with the constant "better not be any beans in my stew, cookie" jokes. Even Ace and later "Hatchet" (the horse wrangler), started in on him with the same joke, except stew would be changed to eggs, pancakes, tri tip and what ever else he was making! After all of the times I have been in the backcountry and had to carry my own gear, it was nice just to bring my sleeping bag and fishing gear. No sore feet, back, and hips this trip! Our meals over the next five days included Tri tip beef, Pork loin, a wonderful pasta dish I can't remember the name of, and large stuffed 1/2 pound burgers the first night. Each day, including our ride in, they had roast turkey, beef, and/or ham sandwiches on artisan bread for us for lunch. The Breakfast included pancakes, bacon, sausage, and even eggs benedict, one morning! I never thought I would eat that well in the backcountry!</div>
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The next morning, we were up early and after breakfast we rode a few miles until the trail became too steep for the horses and day hiked to the first lake. Once there we snuck up on the outlet and saw many large Goldens and a few monsters. Below are a few pictures, I didn't bring a polarized lens with me but the water was clear enough to see them through the camera lens.</div>
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We threw everything we had at them, nymphs, dries, and streamers! Nothing, would bring them to the surface except a small microscopic bug on the surface. Every time we tried to get close the fish would spook and we would have to wait for them to settle down again.<br />
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Greg managed to hook a couple monsters but they threw the hook every time! It was about four in the afternoon when the rain started, followed by hail, and then rain again. We didn't see full sun again until we made it to the truck Friday afternoon. After the first storm hit we headed back to camp for the aforementioned burgers! Cookie sure can cook and the breakfast the next morning was just as awesome as the burgers! After breakfast, we headed to a different area, a little farther down the trail to try an inlet. Soon after arriving I caught this one, nicer than the 8'' last year!<br />
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As you can see we caught them on glow bugs, the same glow bugs I was catching monster browns on the green river near Flaming Gorge last year!<br />
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We experimented with other patterns, including big terrestrials, but glow bugs worked the best for the fish I caught.<br />
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Farther up the inlet we caught more, all around the same size. Occasionally, a monster could be seen muscling it's way in between the smaller ones. My son doesn't have a lot of patience, he gets that from me, so teaching him to fish has always been a struggle. Luckily, Ace does, and he had my son on fish rather quickly. While Ace was helping my boy, I decided I wanted to catch a fight on camera, so I just walked back and forth as everyone was fishing, waiting for the next one. As I was wandering around, my son started screaming and I ran over to see him fighting a large golden. I set the camera down, knowing immediately that the fish was the biggest Golden I had seen and we had to land it. Coltin brought it to shore and as I reached to land, it ran again and snapped the leader. What a fish to lose, we both marveled at how big the fish was and he went back to throwing in hopes of catching another. Greg started fishing above Coltin and about every twenty casts, laying dang nearly on his belly, he would hook one. I wasn't ready for the first couple, so I just sat down on shore behind a boulder and waited. The light wasn't great, due to the intermittent rain, so I had to bump up my camera's ISO to 320 to get a reasonable shutter speed to catch the fight. After a few attempts I finally shot this series, thankfully my camera can do 12 frames per second!<br />
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The last one of the day looked spawned out, we guessed it was most likely it's last dance!<br />
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We checked out a couple other lakes during the three days we had to fish and caught plenty of Brook trout, nothing of any real size, but fun. If you are looking for a trip with a chance of big golden trout, Ace in the hole outfitters offers a great trip, however, he only does a couple due to the short time span you will find golden trout in the inlets and outlets. His website is currently under construction, but you call him at (307) 413-7748.</div>
Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-56018288738039415682015-07-30T00:54:00.001-07:002015-07-30T00:54:29.536-07:00Yellowstone<h3>
Family Vacation with a 15 mile hike!</h3>
I have been wanting to return to photograph Union falls at the bottom west corner of Yellowstone national park. Everything I have read says that it's sixteen miles, however according to my Garmin GPS it was a 15.2 mile round trip and we accomplished it in just under seven hours. My Son and I arrived at the Grassy Lake trail head after a long hour and half drive from Ashton, Idaho. The majority of the road is dirt and some of it is very rough, making it necessary to drive slowly! No permit is necessary according to the nice Ranger I spoke with at the park headquarters the day before, unless you plan on staying overnight. Our plan was a quick hike in to take pictures and maybe swim in the hot pools near the falls. The sun was out when we arrived so we had high hopes of a nice hike. <br />
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My first trip was four years prior and at the time I had just recently picked up photography and was stuck in auto mode. This time however, I had a plan to do a few long exposures and bring out the true beauty of the nearly three hundred foot waterfall, and if my memory serves me right, is the second largest waterfall in Yellowstone. It was eight thirty when we started our hike and a quick quarter mile hike to the park boundary. The trail starts off level and has a few ups and downs before reaching the Falls river a mile in, at this point you are required to ford the river to continue on and follow the Mountain ash creek trail. About five miles later you reach the junction to the Union Falls trail while passing a really cool old Patrol cabin. I made to mistake of believing it was a great idea to hold off taking picture until I was on my way out. This turn out to be a bad idea as I'll explain later on. We arrived at Union falls overlook at about ten minutes to noon; not too bad of a hike of seven plus miles, even with the switch backs right before reaching the falls!<br />
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As you can see it is quite the sight to behold and below is one of the original photographs I took almost four years to the day. Of course this was taken in auto, long before I even understood how to take it out of that mode, let a lone, knowing what a neutral destiny filters, aperture, and shutter speed! As you can see in the below picture, there was quite a bit more water four years ago including the sun!<br />
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After finishing our packed lunch and taking the pictures I wanted, the skies began to dump all of the rain they contained. My plan was to take all those shots I skipped, as we headed out. Well, when you have heavy rain, hail, and howling wind, taking pictures is the last thing on your mind. So we boogied back down the trail as fast as we dared, trying not to burning ourselves out. Here is the cabin I mentioned above taken on my first trip. It looked exactly the same other than the lack of sun and presence of mud, I assume that it still in use and makes a great place to take a breather for the Rangers.<br />
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We made it back to my truck just before three thirty, after leaving the falls at twelve fifty. We covered over seven and a half miles in less than three hours. We were moving so fast the mud flying from the bottom of our boots was caked on our pants. of course, the rain stopped right after reaching the truck. After wringing ourselves out, we began the long muddy drive back to camp. I would have rather seen the sun on the hike and maybe a little more water volume to the falls, but it was still worth the trip in to see Union falls, despite the long miles. Not sure I would like to stay in a high traffic bear area overnight, even with bear spray. Ironically, even with the threat of running into a bear, I was more worried about the long miles. Thankfully, this treasure is far away from the nearest road and should stay pristine for future generations. There are quite a few waterfalls in the same area, however they will have to wait until next time to get their picture taken!<br />
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Since we were in Yellowstone, we did manager to spend a little time in the main areas of the park and I took quite a few pictures. so enjoy!<br />
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Lewis Falls.<br />
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Old Faithfull area.<br />
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The only ferocious animals we encountered!<br />
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Elk at the park headquarters.<br />
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Tower falls.<br />
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Not sure the name of this one, I found it on the trail to check out Upper falls, however the trail was closed due to unsafe conditions, not sure what they considered unsafe. There were quite a few trails closed through out the park.<br />
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The brink of Lower falls.<br />
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Lower falls.<br />
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We spent two days checking out the park and other than one Bison, a few elk at the headquarters, and the close call with the chipmunks. We didn't see any other animals, maybe they were closed due to unsafe conditions. On the last day left Ashton and we stopped by upper and lower Mesa falls, since they are absolutely beautiful, before hitting the park one more time.<br />
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We took the scenic route through the park and out the south entrance thought Grand Teton. Along the way we stopped by Schwabacher's landing to use the rest room and saw this little family.<br />
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One last picture before hitting the road!<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-27942745148303504412015-07-19T22:45:00.000-07:002015-07-19T22:45:51.728-07:00Naturalist Basin<h3>
Waterfall Hunting.</h3>
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Inspired by another blogger and recent friend, his blog can be found here: <br />
<a href="http://seekingshambhala.blogspot.com/">http://seekingshambhala.blogspot.com/</a>. I decided to check out the waterfalls he told me about in the Naturalist Basin. I knew it was just a little more than a day hike, so my son and I took the tent. We headed in around noon and made it to the wilderness boundary very quickly. Even this far away from a major city you can still find people willing to deface things!<br />
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A short few miles later we hit the turn off and the hope of finding some waterfalls.<br />
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I wasn't too sure where I was going to find waterfalls, but I new if I spent a little time with the map, checking inlets and outlets they wouldn't be too hard to find. At this point, I had to decide to climb up to the two Morat lakes and Blue lake or stay lower in the drainage and hit Jordan lake.<br />
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We chose to check out Blue lake and find a place for the night, on the way we passed a beautiful meadow.<br />
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Once we tackled a very steep climb, we reached the Morat lakes and between them and up towards Blue above the next ridge we found a gorgeous waterfall.<br />
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The two Morat lakes.<br />
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Blue Lake.<br />
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After reaching Blue lake and discovering the unending onslaught of mosquitos there, we decided to check out Le Conte lake and there we found a fast approaching storm, so going lower was the best option.<br />
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Above Jordan lake.<br />
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My son and his phone, even the great, out of doors is no match for a smart phone. Not really, he just likes to take pictures as much as I do!<br />
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Jordan lake.<br />
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After looking for way down to Jordan, we found another waterfall.<br />
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We made camp, filtered some water and were asleep before the rain started. The next morning we had breakfast and hit the trail. We had a family event later in the evening and even though I was sure there might be at least one more falls; we need to get back. On the way out, we ran into this little pygmy rabbit. This rabbit sat motionless hoping it's camouflage would keep it unseen, we just took a couple pictures and moved on.<br />
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One last parting shot.<br />
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The Forth Visit!</h3>
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My Son, a great friend, and I, began the planning of this trip on our way out of the Pole creek drainage last August. The last nine miles were tough but manageable, especially while thinking about coming back. Well, except the last few, as I was dragging myself to the truck. Nine miles without a break, will do that to a fella! Anyway, during our last trip we discussed the other trips that Ace in the Hole outfitters offered and he outlined a guided fishing trip, with provided meals and transportation to and from the lakes. This interested us greatly and a year later we meet with Ace, Cookie, and Hatchet at the trailhead. Ace, of course the Outfitter, Cookie is the cook and Hatchet is the horse wrangler. It was quite nice, just to bring a sleeping bag and fishing gear; everything else was provided! After some brief introductions we mounted the horses and began our twelve mile ride to base camp. I was sworn to secrecy, so I will not be give the names of any lakes or drainages. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I did taking them!<br />
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The view from base camp!<br />
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On the way to our first lake.<br />
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This is the first of many storm clouds that plagued us all week!<br />
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Not sure the type of Lily this is, however they are everywhere in the Winds, so I refer to them as just the Wind River Lily! (<strong>Edit, a friend of mine pointed out that these are Columbines, good thing I'm a hiker, cause I would make a terrible Botanist)</strong>.<br />
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Another beautiful flower!<br />
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After a very brief but violent hail storm we headed back to the horses, it was only a few miles, but with views like this, it didn't seem very far.<br />
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Our trail mascot, Shay! She is a mixed breed and very protective of the group. She would sit and watch over us everywhere we went, alert and always on watch.<br />
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A sunset view from camp, it was also the last time we would see the sun until a couple miles before making it back to the truck, three days later!<br />
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The next day, we checked out another drainage and did some more fishing!<br />
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Let's ride! Coltin on Capitan.<br />
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On the way back to camp, Cookie, was leading the way.<br />
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A waterfall on the way to another lake, I had everyone go on ahead so I could take this, Hatchet was nice enough to stay with me. I'm sure the only reason for this was so I wouldn't kill myself trying to catch up on the horse.<br />
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Indian paintbrush.<br />
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We all enjoyed taking pictures, just as much as the fishing!<br />
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Death's Survivor, the struggle of life!<br />
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Day three, fishing and three mile hike.<br />
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Two of our camp visitors.<br />
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It poured on us for four days, we had a few breaks here and there but we spent the whole week wet. Thankfully it stayed warm after the brief rain storms. During the week we had gourmet food cooked over a camp fire. Monday's dinner was 1/2 pound burgers with bacon and onions, Tuesday's was Beef Tetrazzini, Wednesday we had marinated beef tri tip, which was better than most restaurant's prime rib. Thursday we had pork tenderloin, and it was absolutely amazing! Each day for lunch we had sandwiches on artisan breads, fresh fruit, and a snack. The breakfasts were French toast and sausage, Pancakes, bacon and eggs, Eggs benedict, and the last day an egg scrabble. I have never eaten that well in the backcountry. None of it came out of a bag!<br />
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Friday, after breakfast we broke camp and rode the twelve miles out in a heavy down pour, we were all wet from head to toe, rain gear only works in rain and not crossing swollen rivers and streams that reach the chest of your horse. Even the guides have never seen that much water! We made it to the trucks after a five hour plus horse ride and rung ourselves out. We said our goodbyes and headed for Rock Springs, Wyoming, to get a hotel and take a well deserved shower. Normally we would be screaming down the road from the trailhead in search of real food, but in this case that wasn't necessary as we ate like kings! I had taken seven days off, so we still had two days left of our well deserved vacation and my buddy owns a bass boat, so we headed for Flaming Gorge Reservoir to do some additional fishing.<br />
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While fishing we saw an Osprey in a nest, if you look closely you can see the chick!<br />
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The Gorge's iconic bridge.<br />
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At the back of a cove we encountered some very aggressive small mouth bass, the little ones hung around in little packs and would attack anything thrown in their vicinity, this little one stuck my a lure, which was much larger than it. It was released safely back to the depths to grow a little bigger.<br />
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Here are a couple of large rainbow trout we caught in the same area as the little one above. These large trout grow large eating those little bass!<br />
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A great way to spend a week! The boat ride out was interesting, 60 miles an hour on water is fast, especially during a rain storm, It appears the rain had it out for us this week. What a week, 40 miles on horse back, 10 miles or more on foot, and 20 plus on a bass boat! What a vacation!Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-3379182687127574892015-06-20T22:37:00.000-07:002015-06-21T09:09:44.398-07:00Waterfall hunting part duex Redo of my last attempt to visit one of my favorite backcountry waterfalls!<br />
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The trail was illuminated only by the waxing light of the crescent moon as we hurried our way to Weir lake. It was my son and my ten year old German shorthaired pointer along this time.. The last time I took Padmay with us was our first and only attempt to make it to King peak--Utah's tallest mountain. That trip was cut short due to a close call (for me anyway) with lightening. Anyway, this was an impromptu trip to redo the attempt during Memorial day weekend. <br />
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We arrived at the trial head a little after nine pm and we knew it was going to be long dark hike, luckily, I have been on this trail many times and know it very well. I do not recommend doing any night hiking as the tripping hazards alone make it a bad idea, however as my wife can attest, I'm not always of sound mind. Well enough about me, on to the story! After about an hour and a half of negotiating toe crushing large rocks, mud, and horse caused disasters, we found a suitable place to set up camp. Once that was accomplished, I set up my camera to shoot the Milky way, inspired in part by my new friend Jack, he was on his way to Great Basin National Park to do the very same thing. Here are a few shots I took, I played around with different ISO settings, not really the shots I wanted, but fun none the less!<br />
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Even at over 50 miles away from Salt lake, the light pollution is still a hindrance and with the 12800 ISO on the top picture I was able to capture some of that light pollution and the colors it contained!<br />
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With the Milky way shot, we hit the bags around midnight; I slept quite well, thanks in part to working all day, 3 miles in the dark, and of course, my backpacking cot. The cot I use was originally made by a company called luxurylite (not sure if they are still in business) and now a large sleeping pad manufacture makes it--this is the version I own. It weighs in at over three pounds, but I'm a side sleeper and sleeping on inflatable pads kills my shoulders, so it is worth the weight. My pack only weighed in at 20 pounds, so no big deal this time. We slept in until after nine and even the boy scout troop, a hundred yards away, weren't enough to get us up. Padmay, at 10 was just fine waiting until we climbed out of the tent, even though we go for long walks and the occasional run, she was sore too! Once out of the tent, I went straight to work on breakfast, I have been experimenting with decreasing my pack weight for a while and inspired by another friend, Beth, I started looking into home made alcohol stoves. My first try was out of two soda cans, however the one I brought along this time was made from a cat food can, thoroughly washed of course and inspired by yet another friend, Layne. Dehydrated backpacking meals are not my favorite and when ever I can I'll bring along real food. On this trip, we brought eggs and pancake mix. <br />
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Here are a couple pictures of the stove in action! Warning, eggs were harmed in the making of this breakfast!<br />
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The alcohol stove did the job, but is not very efficient, better to boil water only, unless you want to carry quite a lot of fuel. It was an interesting experiment and fun to experiment with different ways to cook in the backcountry!<br />
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I am also trying something different this time for my blog, normally I will process my photos and as I do that, my story just writes itself. This time, however I started writing it before even looking at the pictures. However on my last trip, all of my new friends would stop every time they saw anything interesting and take a picture, something I used to do while on one of my adventures. As my photography skills have improved, so has my critical eye for composition and light. This is a blessing and a curse, whereas I will skip an interesting shot if the light isn't right or I didn't bring the correct lens for the shot. This trip I intended to take pictures of anything I wanted, without worrying how it would turn out. Well as I was taking the above pictures I noticed something was off, but with my new self imposed moratorium on fussing about the perfect shot I let it go. I should have listened to my instincts, because my ISO was still set for 6400 instead of 100 (as I usually shoot with). So all of the rest of the photos here are the ones I could salvage. I spent some time shooting in my favorite waterfall gorge and almost all of them are too noisy to fix in post processing. Normally I wouldn't show any of these pictures, however this would be an even shorter blog if I didn't have any pictures to post. So it's worth the embarrassment. <br />
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Bottom of the gorge. <br />
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This is the main fall in the middle of the gorge, the is a better picture farther down.<br />
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Mount Watson.</div>
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We even relived our snowball fight from the last outing, I cheated, by hiding a snowball for later on, and just before the trailhead I threw another! <br />
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We made it back to the trailhead around one p.m. and headed straight for Uinta drive inn, if you have never eaten there you need to, they have awesome burgers! Here is a picture of the the main waterfall in the gorge I took last fall, so you have an idea of what I was trying to do. This one, of course was taken the way I normally do! The pictures didn't turn out the way I would have liked and I learned a valuable lesson: always check you setting before you start shooting!</div>
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An Idaho Backcountry Adventure</h3>
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After a little planning and many discussions, our trip came to fruition! Our goal was to hike to Upper Palisades reservoir and if we had time, check out the waterfalls. Once a waterfall was mentioned, I knew I was going and need to schedule a day off. I spent the couple weeks getting ready; I have accumulated too much gear, and it can take a while to decide what gear to haul 22 miles into the backcountry. With the plan set and the transportation figured out, we were off. Roughly four hours of windshield time and we arrived at the trailhead. It was shortly after 11 am when we hit the trail.<br />
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The crazy eight<br />
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It sure is nice to see green at this elevation, unlike Utah, it rains quite a bit.<br />
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The midway point to the first lake, and our first break.<br />
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One of the many river crossings, there are several nice bridges that helped keep our feet dry.<br />
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We took a short break once we hit the first lake, and while taking in that beauty, we noticed a bald eagle circling the lake. Once back on the trail, we saw it again near the end of the lake in it's nest.<br />
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The inlet of lower Palisades.<br />
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It was a long seven miles to the upper lake, once there, we all set camp as the clouds kept the sun from us and threatened with the imminent showers it carried. We set camp quickly just in case. After a light sprinkling, we gathered some firewood, for the evenings fire. Thankfully, there wasn't any fire restrictions and firewood was easy to find. After a quick dinner, some of us did a little fishing. The lake is full of Cutthroat trout, however you are required to release them immediately, so no trout dinner for us this trip. <br />
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The next morning, after breakfast, we hit the trail in search of waterfalls! Our destination was a large basin with three waterfalls and four miles from Upper Palisades. We came across this beautiful pond just before entering waterfall basin.<br />
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The first waterfall! The falls appear to come straight out of the side of the mountain.<br />
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A very steep climb to the middle section.<br />
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Directly across from the first waterfall.</div>
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At the end of the basin is a box canyon and this beauty! Still quite a bit of snow, however none of it is on the trail. After a brief visit and some filtered water, we headed back to camp.</div>
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About a mile back from camp, the clouds unloaded on us, thankfully just a steady short lived storm. Once back at camp we made dinner and sat by the fire, cementing our new friendships. <br />
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After a quick breakfast, we packed our wet gear and headed for the trailhead, we left at just after eight. Along the way and just before the lower lake we ran into two moose, this was the best picture I was able to take, they just wouldn't hold still.<br />
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We arrived back at the trailhead just after twelve, we weren't in a big hurry and took several breaks to help our sore feet, covering 22 miles in just over 48 hours. It was a great trip and I left with a few pictures and some new friends.<br />
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<br />Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-34877483724672127212015-05-25T13:59:00.000-07:002015-05-25T13:59:49.052-07:00Waterfall hunting<h3>
Long, warm winter!</h3>
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It has been a long wait, I have been diligently checking UDOT's website once a week waiting for the word open to appear next to Highway 150 in the seasonal closure page. While going through the motions last week I was actually shocked to see open! So the gears in my head started turning and if I was capable of having an out of body experience, I would have witnessed the small puff of smoke emitting from my ears. I originally had no plans this Memorial day weekend, however after discovering the road to my happy place was open, I new I had to try visiting my favorite waterfall. My son and I stuffed our backpacks and when Saturday morning finally arrived, we loaded the truck. After a short family birthday celebration we were on the road. Everything was going great until right before the Trial lake turn off and that's when we started seeing snow, the entire drive up, I saw very little snow. Its amazing how 500ft of elevation affects the snow levels!<br />
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We made the turn with plans on trudging through snow along the trail but ran into at least a foot and a half of snow blocking the way. I expected snow on the trail but not the paved road to the trailhead and with that much snow I was doubtful that any of the water was open; with our plans curtailed we post holed up the short hill to see if Trial lake was open.<br />
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As you can see, it still had a little ice and snow on it! As beautiful as it was it paled in comparison with what was on my son's phone, evidently!<br />
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Actually I just teasing, he was trying to figure out the camera on his new phone. He is almost as crazy about adventuring as I am! I liked these pictures, so I included them!<br />
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After a quick snow ball fight we headed for a little lower elevation, to search for a place to set camp and maybe a little less frozen water.<br />
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Back to the truck.<br />
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We went a little further up the road to check out Bald mountain pass and it is quite the sight!<br />
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As you can see there's still a little snow in the Uintas.<br />
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We found a little out of the way spot, lower down the mountain and set up camp. I was determined to give my hammock one last try. The first time I tried it, I didn't have adequate rain protection so I didn't sleep very well; I was concerned about my son getting wet.<br />
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After hanging our hammocks, I wanted to try my new stove and it's a little labor intensive but can boil water in about five minutes. It weighs in about 6 ounces and with a small metal bowl I can boil water for under 10 ounces. My Jet boil and fuel is roughly 18 ounces and it's faster than this little stove but if there is no fire restrictions and I don't want the hassle of having a leave no trace campfire. This is a great alternative and the spent coals are really easy to dispersed. I may even pack in some s'mores one of these days; no extra fuel canister required, because it runs on very small pieces of wood! We also tried some new backpacking meals that I found; nothing to report on them, not very impressive. You can eat them, but this is the reason I bought this new stove. I have a small 5 ounce frying pan that works well for pancakes and even frying an egg, quite a bit better than a chemical laden dehydrated bag of digestive distress!<br />
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It was a very rough night, hammocks do not work well with side sleepers. With how comfortable they are to lie in, I was convinced I'd sleep just fine. Boy, was I wrong! I would get about 30 minutes at a time versus 2 or 3 hours on a pad in a tent. It was also, a very cold night, my son had ice on his bag in the morning and we had to scape the windows before heading out. My son reported he had trouble also, as he sleeps on his side as well. We explored the area a little more and I decided on just settling for Provo river falls as the water fall to shoot. The snow should be gone in a few weeks and I'll defiantly be back! Just a short overnighted but with the heavy rain and snow the area is getting, the Uintas aren't ready for backpackers just yet.<br />
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On the way back I finally stopped and shot the place the first place I ever fished the Weber river. Each time I've passed it, I kept telling myself next time.<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-48334442338941398302015-04-19T16:29:00.000-07:002015-04-19T16:29:08.003-07:00Teton Run<h3>
Last minute trip to catch Grand Teton covered in snow.</h3>
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This winter has been tough for me! Not enough snow to snow shoe and too much to hike, so I have just concentrated on photography and with that, I knew I need to add the Tetons to my <em>repertoire! </em>So, I formulated my plan earlier in the week and informed the wife, luckily for me she puts up with my addictions and quirks! <br />
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Saturday I loaded a sleeping bag, my backpack, and camera gear into the truck while contemplating exactly how I was going to compose my shots. You can't call yourself a photographer without shooting the Tetons. My tentative plan involved covering the 250 mile, one way, jaunt to visit arguably one of the most beautiful mountains in the world. My plan was to shoot Schwabacher's landing, the barns of Mormon row, and the Milky Way, if possible. <br />
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I departed my house around 1 pm and I was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming around 5 pm. I took the scenic route which was 40 miles shorter and half hour longer; well worth it, by the way! Schwabacher's landing's gate was closed along with Mormon row; so my only choice was to catch the sunset after I grabbed a quick bite to eat in Jackson and starts shooting when I returned to the mountain.<br />
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Final Glimpse!<br />
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Heavenly Light.<br />
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Glacial Inferno!<br />
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Blazing Teton!<br />
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The below nightscape test shots, didn't turn out very well, but I froze my hind end getting them, so I'll share. I planned to sleep in my truck waiting for the Milky Way to make it journey across the sky. While waiting I did the research I should have done at home on my phone and I realized that it wouldn't be directly over the Tetons until after 5 am. So my new plan was check every couple hours and I was sure that I would catch it. Just after 3 am, it was directly above me but really faint and at 5:42 am when I woke again, twilight had begun and it was not visible any longer, so I'll just have to head back another time when it will be visible earlier in the evening.<br />
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3200 ISO<br />
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6400ISO<br />
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After missing my shot I decided to head for home and caught this at the last minute, just as the sun rose along the Snake river, it was hand held ,so it's not very sharp, but shows the scenery along the way!<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-70107928281959178782015-03-23T23:13:00.002-07:002015-03-23T23:13:44.022-07:00Additional Pictures<h3>
Waiting for the snow to melt!</h3>
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I know we need the water but I can't wait for that snow to melt! I look at the Wasatch front everyday dreaming about my next visit. In the interim, I have been taking and processing picture while waiting, here are some of my latest.<br />
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Midnight Elephant Parade<br />
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HDR, Fisherman's Friend<br />
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Single exposure, Fisherman's Friend<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-22015189724379097882015-03-08T19:56:00.000-07:002015-03-14T12:57:51.411-07:00Bryce Canyon Sunrise<h3>
Beautiful!</h3>
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No hike again, but I had to post about the sunrise at Bryce Canyon National Park I witnessed this morning. I was up at five and had everything ready to go by five thirty. No one was manning the entrance to the park, but I have a pass, so I headed straight for Sunrise point. The wind was blowing and there was only one other person there, she to was waiting for the sun to rise. The trail to the top was a little treacherous and slick. The snow was deep, but frozen enough to walk on top of without sinking. It was a cold thirty five minutes waiting for the moment the sun was going to show itself. A steady stream of people began trudging up the slick hill to join us. Right before official sunrise the sun crested and I took this!<br />
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It may not be the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen but it's close!<br />
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Another shot from the same morning!<br />
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Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-81179096694008480832015-02-16T23:03:00.000-08:002015-02-16T23:04:22.559-08:00Arches and Canyonlands National Parks<h3>
Long over due trip!</h3>
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I left Friday after work with my boy and pointed the truck south. I have been through Moab many times but never visited any of the sights. A nagging regret that needed to be satisfied! We arrived late and had an issue with hotel; my reservations were made two months prior but the National park service decided to do a free entrance weekend and every hotel in town was over flowing. Once settled in for the night we were up at 6:30 am and eating breakfast shortly after. I meet with a new friend and we hit Arches first. My original plans fell through and I had expected a few more people to join me so I made the best of it and we decided on visiting the Devils Garden and hunt for The Dark Angel! Arches is quite the large park and it takes quite a while to navigate through because of all the distractions along way. We started around 10:00 am at the trailhead and the first arch we ran into was Landscape Arch.<br />
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Next was Partition Arch.<br />
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Navajo Arch after.<br />
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Double Arch.<br />
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After Double O arch the trail verse to the left and you cross open desert to The Dark Angel!<br />
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A beautiful formation and a great place for a sun burst!<br />
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After visiting for a short time we headed back towards the trail head to see the rest of the park.<br />
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Double O from the north side.<br />
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There is a large fin in the middle of the trail that offers a incredible view of the Snow capped La Sal Mountains.<br />
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Landscape arch again!<br />
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We made it back to the truck after the 7 mile round trip and decided to visit Delicate Arch next.<br />
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This was the busiest Arch by far and it took quite a long time to wait for the selfie crowd to get out of the way long enough to snap a picture or two. I had to crop the above pictures quite a bit to eliminate the interlopers! Since we had to wait we decided to catch the sunset. <br />
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We hiked down from Delicate and headed for dinner; once dinner was out of the way we headed back into the park to try few star shots.<br />
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I was in bed just after midnight and planned on heading to Canyonlands to take the iconic sunrise shot at Mesa Arch.<br />
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Balance Rock.<br />
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And my absolute favorite, Double Arch!<br />
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We left for home shortly after, a great trip was had by all!Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815008673631682989.post-65481217658485810952015-01-12T22:58:00.000-08:002015-01-12T22:58:41.294-08:00Zion Trip Images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not wanting to be stuck home for New Years and to beat the winter doldrums, the family and I decided to go some where we have never been before! After researching some options, we decided on Zion National Park. Once that choice was made, we needed a place to stay; I like my tent but not when it's below freezing, and there was no way the my beautiful wife was gong to sleep out in the cold. Luckily for me, I have some great friends that own a rental property just outside the east entrance to Zion. It is an amazing place and you will not find a more beautiful place to stay and enjoy the park!<br />
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After passing through the park and out the east entrance we took the winding road up to the house, it's very hard not to fall in love with the it, the moment you see it!<br />
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Once settled in, we toured the house, and let me tell you it is absolutely amazing. The kitchen is well designed and the entire house is well appointed. If you are looking for a place to stay and are like myself tired of hotels. This just may be the very best way to experience Zion outside of a tent of course. Follow the link if you're interested!<br />
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The next morning, we had a huge breakfast and departed for the park at around 11am; it's amazing, how easy it is to oversleep when you are warm and comfortable and not sleeping on rocks! Zion is absolutely beautiful in winter and if you have never seen it covered in snow, you need to go!<br />
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The Patriarchs are beautiful!<br />
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Caught this on the way to check out the temple I caught this sun star!<br />
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We did not hike Angel's landing and there were many doing so as we went through there, but we just wanted to see everything and with the short days I was more than content with just driving through and playing tourist!<br />
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Great White Throne<br />
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On the way out we ran into a traffic jam and below you can see the reason. Every one had to stop and take pictures and I suppose I am just as guilty!</div>
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Evidently, he likes to pose for pictures.<br />
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Parting shot on the way out of the park.<br />
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After spending the whole day, and eating some great food in Springdale, our thoughts returned to the long drive home. We weren't quite ready to do that, so we looked at the map to see what else we could do to make the trip better, that's when we realized Bryce Canyon wasn't all the far away and it certainly was a place we had never been before. So, the next morning we headed up highway 9 to highway 89 and then along highway 12 to Bryce Canyon. </div>
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I have to say, I honestly can't tell you which park I like the most. They are both awesome, and each one has it's own merits; you'll have to judge for yourself. I shot this on the way out, through Red Canyon. Another great thing to see in this wonderful state!<br />
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I arranged to do some work in Escalante, Utah the Friday before my trip so I could shave the extra vacation day. A great idea indeed! I left the house at 8 am and began the 300 plus mile road trip to the small but very friendly town of Escalante. I made it there at around 2 pm and began taking care of the job I had arranged to do while in town. Evidently Verizon doesn't know southern Utah exists as I had little to no reception anywhere in town let alone data. Thankfully I brought my personal phone or I wouldn't have had any communication. Luckily for me one of very friendly staff members at The Escalante Outfitters Café let me use their WIFI to report my job completion. <br />
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After my business was taken care of I grabbed lunch and pointed my truck towards Hole in the rock road and traveled the 31 miles to the Red Well trailhead. Once there I filled out the permit available at the trailhead and off I went. It was just after 5 pm and I needed to cover as many miles as possible before sunset.<br />
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A bad omen?<br />
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The trailhead.<br />
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On my way.<br />
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Raining but not making it to the ground!<br />
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Panorama!<br />
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Coyote's beginnings.<br />
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No pot of gold, just sand!<br />
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Mother nature did her worst and it survived in spite of it!<br />
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I named this one the gate!<br />
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The storm seems to be following me!<br />
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I climbed out of the canyon to make camp just in case mother nature wanted to give the canyon a beating! What a great decision. I took this just a little while before the moon rose!<br />
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And then the moon!<br />
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I actually had a decent night, I slept almost the whole night through which is a uncommon thing for me. What a beautiful sunrise to wake up with!<br />
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After breakfast I packed up camp and headed back into the canyon.<br />
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My only companion, you should of heard the language he used when he tripped!<br />
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The walls are closing in!<br />
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An arches beginning?<br />
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After a couple miles the creek started getting wider.<br />
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What an odd place to find this, I could see at the beginning of the trail not in the middle!<br />
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Now, the canyons walls started getting taller.<br />
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Just one more turn!<br />
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Jacob Hamblin Arch.<br />
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Above is the west side of the arch, so another bend in the river to take me to the other side.<br />
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The view between the two sides of the canyon.<br />
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Fall is coming to Coyote.<br />
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After visiting the arch my initial inclination was to make a base camp but there was far too many people in and around the arch for me to feel comfortable leaving all of my gear. Since my pack was only 35lbs I just kept going. I passed the waterfall that inspired my new found obsession with photography, another falls under a boulder, and Coyote natural bridge on my way to see the last waterfall in the canyon and of course Cliff arch. <br />
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More fall colors.<br />
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Every turn offered so much more beauty.<br />
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Right before Cliff arch there is a really gnarly gorge and I made it half way down before I realized that I was going to have to climb back up every ten foot boulder I negotiated down. So I settled for this view of cliff arch. I had already traveled over 9 miles today and I still had about 3 miles to get back to JHA for the night I planned on taking some more night shots through the arch.<br />
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On my way back to Coyote natural bridge.<br />
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Coyote Natural Bridge<br />
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Ever have the feeling you're being watched?<br />
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Broken Arch.<br />
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Waterfall under a very large boulder!<br />
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My inspiration to learn photography!<br />
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After the waterfall I made it back to Jacob Hamblin Arch and set camp. Not a bad view!<br />
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This is what happens when you just have a kit lens with you. I took twenty pictures and this was the only one that I could salvage. I still haven't purchased a decent lens for Astrophotography yet, however no one in there right mind would take a DSLR into this place. The sand is the consistency of flour but finer. Luckily, as my wife will attest, I am not in my right mind when it come to backpacking. As I type this I can still feel sand at the back of my throat!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9loI76kiwsCETrTZy0IE11hn5Ex6mfN8ZDZMmKp4nJjvMCCpsi1HM2yjL8FSmqtPRD3fGpy6iCOkPcSRFFQONWhHynodhzDxDjO2uItI0YyG9mdSSVYpuoUcw6hYzNxmHCYG7vgxpFA/s1600/_DSC7627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9loI76kiwsCETrTZy0IE11hn5Ex6mfN8ZDZMmKp4nJjvMCCpsi1HM2yjL8FSmqtPRD3fGpy6iCOkPcSRFFQONWhHynodhzDxDjO2uItI0YyG9mdSSVYpuoUcw6hYzNxmHCYG7vgxpFA/s1600/_DSC7627.jpg" height="358" width="640" /></a><br />
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I had a great Saturday, I meet lots of fellow backpackers and surprisingly only one group from Utah. Most were from Colorado and one group had someone from Tennessee and one from North Carolina. The most surprising ones were the group with a thick Eastern European accents, I spoke with them briefly but didn't ask where they were from.<br />
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I didn't sleep as well as I did the first night and it was a rough one. Not sure why, as I have spent plenty of nights in the backcountry sleeping on the ground. As morning dragged its way in I finally got out of the bag and began packing everything up. So I could start the last 7 miles out and back to my truck.<br />
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Finally, just a hair over 22 miles in lest than 48 hours. What a trip!<br />
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Life is too short to not have an adventure!!!!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span><span><span>Wyoming's Wind River Range Golden Trout Epic Adventure Part 4.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span><span><span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday July, 29th, 30th and August 1st.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> Sometime around 2am the rain started; my new tent was about to be tested! I awoke several times through the night and would check all of the corners to make sure there were no leaks. I'm always paranoid about getting my gear wet, especially my camera. It was just a light sprinkle so the noise of the rain wasn't too bad, so going back to sleep wasn't difficult. Last year during our first trip to the Winds we encountered several storms but they were always short lived. This storm however was different, it rained for 27 hours straight. How the heck are we supposed to fish in the rain? We all stayed in out tents longer than usual but eventually we crawled out to eat breakfast. After our short breakfast the boys decided that fishing in the rain wasn't their bag and they decided to play some card games. My buddy and I decided to head down the basin to search for more Goldens. I left the camera back in the tent as I have had way too many close calls with it and with the constant relentless rain I wasn't going to take the risk. </span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> We slogged through many wet meadows and had to ford a few small streams on our trip down to the next four lakes. We stopped at the first lake below the one we are were camped at and threw some hardware at the fish. Nothing was caught as we fished slowly down the west side of the lake. Our visit to the next ended the same way--completely fishless. We had heard that there was a major fire on the Indian reservation so we were beginning to believe that the fires had done enough damage to the drainage to kill the fish. All the lakes we stopped by looked healthy and had plenty of insects to support fish. We continued fishing the western sides of the lakes and eventually made it to the last lake we wanted to check out. </span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> We skipped right by the third lake and headed for the inlet of the next. We were shocked to find a major mayfly hatch and no feeding fish. We were just stupefied at how dead this basin was and glad that what ever killed these lakes never made it passed False summit pass to the basin we just visited yesterday. We had lunch and threw every think we had at the lake just to make sure, but no fish here either! We headed back towards camp and slowly followed our soggy foot prints. The rain never let up, just a constant never-ending drizzle soaking us through our rain gear to the bone. I don't believe my feet have ever been that wet before!</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> We made it back to camp around 4pm and began the arduous process of drying our boots next to the fire and started discussing our options for getting out. We new that we were not going to return to Dreams end or any of the lakes below so we decided to get up early the next morning and make our way back over the divide. We studied the maps once again and decided on our plan of attack. We had an early dinner and all of us retreated to our tents, Coltin and I played cards until we could no longer see what we were doing. Once the darkness came I fell asleep and slept quite well until I was rudely awaken by natures call around 5am and thankfully it had decided to stop raining--what a relief!</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> The skies were cloudy and still looked like they wanted to dump more water on us! We had a quick breakfast and busted camp. We repacked our backpacks and shouldered them once again to head up the large drainage on the way to back to Angles pass. The hike up wasn't bad but I was really beginning to feel the last 20 miles. My feet and back hurt quite a bit, I didn't want to do anymore boulder hopping, but I new we had a few hundred to cross just to reach the pass.</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> At the top of the pass I took a few pictures to remember the gateway to Dreams end.</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<strong>A look forward.</strong><br />
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<strong>A look back.</strong><br />
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<strong> Angel pass panoramic!</strong><br />
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<strong>Angel Pass.</strong><br />
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<strong> My boy and I.</strong><br />
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<strong>At the summit and looking at Spider lake.</strong><br />
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<strong>During lunch we had a feeling we were being watched and we were! By a Marmot!</strong><br />
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<strong>I just had to take this one, It was hard to believe we crossed this rotten pass!</strong><br />
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<strong>One last panoramic.</strong><br />
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<strong>We hiked for a few more miles and found a great camp site not to far from the trail but close to this beautiful waterfall on Pole creek.</strong><br />
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<strong>A few other shots.</strong><br />
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<strong>A phoenix is born?</strong><br />
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<strong>Pole creek star field.</strong><br />
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<strong> The next morning we headed along the river and fished along the way, the Brook trout were ferocious, so we began referring to them as Pole creek piranha! No matter what you threw at them, they would converge on it like a pack of piranha. My son even had his first 60 plus fish day and it was nice to actually see that much excitement at catching fish. It's been a while! We fished for a couple hours until our desire to get home encouraged us to start our 9 mile trip back to the truck. We forded the last river crossing and just charged our way through the ups and downs until we made it back to the truck. The last four miles after leaving Photographers point were brutal and I felt every grain of sand and pebble as I traversed the trail. We eventually made it back to the truck and headed straight for a local restaurant; finally eating something that wasn't dehydrated. The mileage of this trip was very intense and was very difficult on my body. We didn't catch the monsters we expected but it was nice to actually catch the Golden trout that we after and as I am writing this I can't get over the desire to return as soon as I can!</strong></span></span></span></span>Packslingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281052174755501169noreply@blogger.com0