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Robert Link, an Everest summiteer, gave us a demonstration of the best way to pack for a summit climb.
Backpacking trip to North Fork Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierras (between Lone Pine and Bishop, CA. Bryan, Doug, Kelly and Jeremy spent two nights at over 10,000 feet!
This little backpack is one of the first things I ever knitted. It's also the first pattern I completely made up. I needed a bag to carry knitting in. So I knitted one, which seems poetic, doesn't it?
Yarn: Unlabeled vintage acrylic yarn from my grandma's basement
Needles: #5
Completed: Somewhere around July or August 2004.
Backpacking trip to North Fork Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierras (between Lone Pine and Bishop, CA. Bryan, Doug, Kelly and Jeremy spent two nights at over 10,000 feet!
This little backpack is from Stitch 'n Bitch, although I modified the intarsia so it would be a cat instead of a rabbit. Zipper on the top with pink leopard print lining. The whiskers are pink beads that I sewed on.
Everyone has a place or two that they want to keep secret. This is definitely one of ours. Paul and I went back to an old stomping grounds for a week long backpacking trip to celebrate his 50th birthday. Our original route was cancelled due to a fire in the area, but Plan B turned out great. We caught some cutthroats, saw 5 black bear, 5 rattlesnakes, osprey, eagles, big Chinook salmon and the Perseid meteor showers. The weather was warm for carrying heavy packs, but at least a couple rain storms drenched us. There was a microburst that came through the area one afternoon, like a freight train, that had us watching multiple trees busting over. Luckily the tall cedars, douglas firs and ponderosa pines at our camp bent, but did not break. An awesome trip in an amazing place with a great friend.
I recently put together a book for my dad that contained photographs of some of our many wilderness camps. I thought I would share some of those campviews and memories here.
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Is it possible to find solitude in the wilderness over Memorial Day weekend? It was during our stay at Fletcher Canyon. I believe our original destination was Elk and Bunch Lakes via the Quinault River valley. Steep terrain turned us around. Fletcher Canyon was a spontaneously-picked, though quite lovely, place to make camp.
Backpacking trip to North Fork Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierras (between Lone Pine and Bishop, CA. Bryan, Doug, Kelly and Jeremy spent two nights at over 10,000 feet!
Everyone has a place or two that they want to keep secret. This is definitely one of ours. Paul and I went back to an old stomping grounds for a week long backpacking trip to celebrate his 50th birthday. Our original route was cancelled due to a fire in the area, but Plan B turned out great. We caught some cutthroats, saw 5 black bear, 5 rattlesnakes, osprey, eagles, big Chinook salmon and the Perseid meteor showers. The weather was warm for carrying heavy packs, but at least a couple rain storms drenched us. There was a microburst that came through the area one afternoon, like a freight train, that had us watching multiple trees busting over. Luckily the tall cedars, douglas firs and ponderosa pines at our camp bent, but did not break. An awesome trip in an amazing place with a great friend.
We added a little flair to my daughter's backpack for school this year with the Silhouette SD. We used flocked heat transfer material and then monogrammed it with her initial in rhinestones.
Backpacking trip to North Fork Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierras (between Lone Pine and Bishop, CA. Bryan, Doug, Kelly and Jeremy spent two nights at over 10,000 feet!
The "Women Backpacking Together" Meetup met at the Caribou Lake Trailhead in the Caribou Wilderness in the middle of the night... around midnight. Lorrie and I were there around 7:30pm so after we put up our tent and built a fire, we warded off the bears by making a lot of noise. Four plus hours! We were up around 9am and out on the trail around 11am. Got to our camp at North Divide Lake around 3:30pm and set in for a cold night. Snow all around but we found a nice meadow to camp in.