Recently we took a week long backpacking trip through the Eastern Sierras with the Sierra Club. It was an amazing trip, full of some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen, and our first time being in the wilderness for a whole week. Living out in nature with only what we carried on our back has always been a humbling and enlightening experience, but doing so for an exteneded period of time was even more so. There were definitely difficulties to overcome, but the rewards were certainly worth it.
The first night was spent getting used to the high elevation and meeting our fellow backpack trip members. There were folks from New York, Florida, Oregon, and California. Most of them seemed to be Sierra Club veterans, and were very easy to get to know. After some light conversation around the campfire (the only one we would be afforded this trip as the rest of our campsites were over 10,000 ft) we headed into our tents to get some rest for the start of the trip.
The next day we shuttled cars to our ending trailhead at McGee, with a few drivers heading there to drop off cars and the rest going to the starting trailhead at Mosquito Flat. As we waited for the shuttle drivers to come to the trailhead, we met some really nice park rangers who gave us some valuable information on staying safe in lighting storms. After the rest of our group arrived we started for our first campsite at Ruby Lake. I'll write more later but you can click on the title for more pictures from our trip.
2 comments:
Hey Fred,
Thanks for the new link. The backpacking sounds like quite an adventure...some of the photos towards the end are breath-taking. :-)
-guri
Thanks Guri! We have to convince Nipun to go one of these days! :)
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