REALLY strange trip - Part 1
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 7:09 pm
This is a TR that is probably the strangest, most bizarre TR you've ever read.
Back in the day I was pretty hyper, VERY active and sitting around getting board was almost never an option. This was to an extreme degree.
While playing softball I suffered a quadricep tear. I was in a cast for 5 weeks and thought when I got out I'd be just fine. To my surprise if bending my knee at a 30 degree angle I was in a lot of pain. Of course the doctor with me was not. I asked him when I could run carefully and he said "several weeks". I asked him what I could do and he said I could walk as much as I wanted. I said "good, in 3 days I'm going on a backpacking trip" and he immediatly said "DON'T GO". I said OK I won't go. I didn't even hint at how diffulct would be the terrain. In my condition I knew I couldn't go over the Monarch devide becuese it would be covered in snow. It was June of tipical snow year.
My wife "saint" Diane and I drove to Kings Canyon and the next day set out for Paridise Valle and the first day we could only make it to lower paridise vally becuese I had a horrendous limp. We hung our food between 2 trees and ate dinner. There was a bear with cubs walking around close to us. She "huffed" her cubs to a halt 3 times and they got it that they were supposed to stay put. She then ciricled our camp putting us between her and her cubs. Diane said "what's she doing" and I said I thought she was putting us between her and her cubs to trigger an action to charge us. Diane said "what do we do" I said when she carges in, we charge out.. She charged into our camp hissing or huffing not growling. We went out as fast as I could limp. She found our food line aroud the trunk of a trip and climbed and got the rope in her mouth and started heaving the rope and sack with 10 days of food inside. Slowly but shurly the food was lowering. To our great luck she slipped, nearly falling out of the tree at about 12-15 feet. She couldn't reach the food and wouldn't go back up.
When she left we came in and got our sleeping gear and left. We met a solo hiker. He had eaten and hung his food between two trees very close togeater with wire. I told him with his pack like this the bear would get his food and sure enoght the followin day we found his pack torn to bits. He had to cancel the next 8 days of his 9 day trip.
When the 3 of us laid down under the stars to sleep at the lowest end of Paridise Valley the bear came very close to us and was growling and scaring the hell out of us. We hiked to a campsight just below the vally (campsight taken out by park service 2-3 years later). It was a lot more difficult for me hiking downhill instead of up with my ingury.
The next day we discoverd his pack and got our food down and left hiking to a little past the woods creek and river junction on the river on our way to Kid creek.
Back in the day I was pretty hyper, VERY active and sitting around getting board was almost never an option. This was to an extreme degree.
While playing softball I suffered a quadricep tear. I was in a cast for 5 weeks and thought when I got out I'd be just fine. To my surprise if bending my knee at a 30 degree angle I was in a lot of pain. Of course the doctor with me was not. I asked him when I could run carefully and he said "several weeks". I asked him what I could do and he said I could walk as much as I wanted. I said "good, in 3 days I'm going on a backpacking trip" and he immediatly said "DON'T GO". I said OK I won't go. I didn't even hint at how diffulct would be the terrain. In my condition I knew I couldn't go over the Monarch devide becuese it would be covered in snow. It was June of tipical snow year.
My wife "saint" Diane and I drove to Kings Canyon and the next day set out for Paridise Valle and the first day we could only make it to lower paridise vally becuese I had a horrendous limp. We hung our food between 2 trees and ate dinner. There was a bear with cubs walking around close to us. She "huffed" her cubs to a halt 3 times and they got it that they were supposed to stay put. She then ciricled our camp putting us between her and her cubs. Diane said "what's she doing" and I said I thought she was putting us between her and her cubs to trigger an action to charge us. Diane said "what do we do" I said when she carges in, we charge out.. She charged into our camp hissing or huffing not growling. We went out as fast as I could limp. She found our food line aroud the trunk of a trip and climbed and got the rope in her mouth and started heaving the rope and sack with 10 days of food inside. Slowly but shurly the food was lowering. To our great luck she slipped, nearly falling out of the tree at about 12-15 feet. She couldn't reach the food and wouldn't go back up.
When she left we came in and got our sleeping gear and left. We met a solo hiker. He had eaten and hung his food between two trees very close togeater with wire. I told him with his pack like this the bear would get his food and sure enoght the followin day we found his pack torn to bits. He had to cancel the next 8 days of his 9 day trip.
When the 3 of us laid down under the stars to sleep at the lowest end of Paridise Valley the bear came very close to us and was growling and scaring the hell out of us. We hiked to a campsight just below the vally (campsight taken out by park service 2-3 years later). It was a lot more difficult for me hiking downhill instead of up with my ingury.
The next day we discoverd his pack and got our food down and left hiking to a little past the woods creek and river junction on the river on our way to Kid creek.