Gimme the Good Earth III

After enjoying the fruits of your labors, we all need a place to chill. This is that place. Totally senseless irrelevant banter encouraged.
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Post by bentech »

higher and higher!

your in the 11/12 thousand foot elevantions there???
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10,500 feet. Purty close. Sawtooth Ridge is 11000+
Woohoo!!

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Down Into Slide Canyon, and Finger Peaks
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Blue Skies
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Woke up at 4:00AM with rain. Damn glad I had the tent set up. Feeling cozy.
Thank gawd for weed and the Kindle.
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Rain hard till noon. Broke briefly, just enough to spread out my gear out before it started again … back in the tent.
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Next mourning still cloudy and hit the Rain soaked covered trail.
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Climbed back up above timberline, heading for Burro Pass.
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Started to break up.
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Which prometed me to start singing loudly: Break on through to the blue sky. Sung to The Doors' Break On Through (To The Other Side).

Almost broke out the old solar panel
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Sure made for spectacular scenery and pics.
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Finger Peaks
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But the clouds were only on a brief coffee break.
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Matterhorn Peak.
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Burro Pass. The low saddle on the right. Matterhorn peak looming out view to the left.
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Looking back down at a couple of unnamed ponds.
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Sawtooth ridge and Matterhorn Peak on the right.
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Closer view of Finger Peaks.
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Matterhorn Peak from the pass
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Matterhorn Peak to right, the low saddle is suppose to be my next pass, start of my big cross country route.
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A pulled back view. Pass to the left now.
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Alas, because of the storm and likely snow tonight. I opted to be prudent and the chicken shit I am, I wussed out and opted to take the trails out. Shit happens.

So down the trail into Matterhorn Canyon and just as it starts to sprinkle …
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Post by ben ttech »

damn dis shits getting good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Down Matterhorn Canyon
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Had to set the tent up in the rain, setting up in the rain Sucks!! Everything getting a little wetter and no chance to dry out.
Next day the rain at least let me pack up before starting in again.
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Break on the trail. Then waves and waves of rain, cold cold rain,
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Arrived at Virginia Lake soaked to the bone, shivering (being aware of the first signs of hypothermia).
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Crawled in the tent and sleeping bag.
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As soon as the rain broke just a little I was out and built my first Campfire of the trip.
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Preformed yet another miracle and got a fire going with sopping wet wood and numb frozen hands, shivering the whole time.
Damn I'm goood!
Once the fire gets going, pile more wet wood around to dry,
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Then smoke a bowl and get warm n toasty .
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Next start drying out equipment, cooking dinner, kicking back in between showers.
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Suddenly it's a sweet time, jes beautiful. Lows n highs yanno.

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Post by rSin »

I 'think' I hiked matterhorn canyon once...

damn intrinsic!

that's a long way to have packed a saw for only one fire!!!

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Post by Intrinsic »

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Naw that's the soaked wood lying in the ground left by horse Packers earlier in the season. The wood I used to start the fire is from underneath old downed trees where it stays dry for quite a while. and once the fire gets hot I can use progressively wetter and wetter wood.

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