Monarch Divide trip report

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Monarch Divide trip report

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8/8 - 8/16. Went up the Copper Creek trail, over Granite Pass, then spent the next 6 days going from one off-trail lake basin to another. Gorgeous lakes, awesome views, great weather--a fantastic trip.

Got a much longer trip report (in progress) with pictures on my blog.
Part 1: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-1.html
Part 2: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-2.html
One or two more segments still to come...
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Thank you for the pics, motivates me to want to go just a bit further south in my quest to visit more terrain I haven't visited. Yet!
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hikerduane wrote:Thank you for the pics, motivates me to want to go just a bit further south in my quest to visit more terrain I haven't visited. Yet!
Glad you enjoyed them...and there's more to come! :)
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Ah! Nice. That first pic in your third set is nice, love the Shooting stars in the creek. Those xc trips can be disheartning quite a bit of the time. Luckily on my last trip things were pretty much cut and dried, just one "I don't remember this" and one oh-oh. On my trip a few weeks ago, one stretch I saw no one for a day and a half and the next day was the start of a stretch where I saw no one for 2 days and I was only a few hours off the JMT. Once back on the JM Highway, I saw 20 people within a few hours. One of these years I am going to have to do it to see what all the fuss is about. Thank you.
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Sweet photos and a nice trip that is more creative than that of many who go to that neck of the woods (who tend to use Copper Creek as a way to get to the SHR). Volcanic Lakes and the Kid Creek drainage have long been high on my to do list. They look as nice as I imagined them.
Since my fishing (etc.) website is still down, you can be distracted by geology stuff at: http://www.fresnostate.edu/csm/ees/facu ... ayshi.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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hikerduane wrote:Ah! Nice. That first pic in your third set is nice, love the Shooting stars in the creek. Those xc trips can be disheartning quite a bit of the time. Luckily on my last trip things were pretty much cut and dried, just one "I don't remember this" and one oh-oh. On my trip a few weeks ago, one stretch I saw no one for a day and a half and the next day was the start of a stretch where I saw no one for 2 days and I was only a few hours off the JMT. Once back on the JM Highway, I saw 20 people within a few hours. One of these years I am going to have to do it to see what all the fuss is about. Thank you.
Thanks, Duane! :) (By the way, here's another pic from the same location, with very different light: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomhilton/ ... 247569788/.) I love the challenge of routefinding, and this trip went pretty well on that score--a few frustrating moments, but mostly the route just fell into place.
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giantbrookie wrote:Sweet photos and a nice trip that is more creative than that of many who go to that neck of the woods (who tend to use Copper Creek as a way to get to the SHR). Volcanic Lakes and the Kid Creek drainage have long been high on my to do list. They look as nice as I imagined them.
Thanks, GB. :) I have an aversion to following the same route as anybody else...I know it means I miss a lot of cool places, but it also gets me into some amazing country, and when it does I feel like it's my own discovery. ;)
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I keep getting "Internal Server Error" on all 3 links. I'll try later. :(
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Part 4 is posted: http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2006/08 ... art-4.html
I keep getting "Internal Server Error" on all 3 links. I'll try later.
Hmmm...could be Blogger was down for a while (it's been a little unreliable this morning). Or if you're at work, it could be a firewall problem. I dunno.

If you still can't get there, pictures (without report) are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomhilton/ ... 247569788/
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