Re: Lurkers Please Introduce Yourself
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:28 pm
Good evening-
Realizing this is about a year overdue, my name is mark z and I have been backpacking the Emigrant since 1972... My hiking buddy George and I have done a lot of criss-crossing the Emigrant, Hoover, Yosemite, Ansel Adams and John Muir wildernesses... I was first attracted when spending summers at Kennedy Meadows and deciding to go see what was 'back there'... My dad organized a trip to the base of Lewis Lakes and off we went with little knowledge, but enough food to feed storm troopers that we ended up giving away to make the return trip bearable... That hooked me, but it would not be until 1986 that it became a yearly event, planned all winter long...
I started out longing for the exploration, fishing and solitude that you get nowhere else and then being able to tell the tale back home... A camera started to accompany me and spinning the tales was aided by photo albums that I would bring everywhere with me... Most enjoyed the stories, but it became cumbersome to lug them around and then I discovered the web and web sites... Being a bit of a geek, I delved right into it and immediately realized the potential to cut out albums all together and have an online depository of the places we were going with a bit of history and facts to go along... It has grown to 80+ pages and you can see it @ zscapes.com...
So backpacking became multi-dimensional to me, but what never changes is the charge I get every time I set foot in the wilderness and that can only be accomplished by taking that first step. And I will end this intro with one of my favorite quotes from JRR Tolkien...
"The road goes ever on and on, Down from the door when it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then, I cannot say."
Hello to all and I hope to meet you on the trail !!!
Realizing this is about a year overdue, my name is mark z and I have been backpacking the Emigrant since 1972... My hiking buddy George and I have done a lot of criss-crossing the Emigrant, Hoover, Yosemite, Ansel Adams and John Muir wildernesses... I was first attracted when spending summers at Kennedy Meadows and deciding to go see what was 'back there'... My dad organized a trip to the base of Lewis Lakes and off we went with little knowledge, but enough food to feed storm troopers that we ended up giving away to make the return trip bearable... That hooked me, but it would not be until 1986 that it became a yearly event, planned all winter long...
I started out longing for the exploration, fishing and solitude that you get nowhere else and then being able to tell the tale back home... A camera started to accompany me and spinning the tales was aided by photo albums that I would bring everywhere with me... Most enjoyed the stories, but it became cumbersome to lug them around and then I discovered the web and web sites... Being a bit of a geek, I delved right into it and immediately realized the potential to cut out albums all together and have an online depository of the places we were going with a bit of history and facts to go along... It has grown to 80+ pages and you can see it @ zscapes.com...
So backpacking became multi-dimensional to me, but what never changes is the charge I get every time I set foot in the wilderness and that can only be accomplished by taking that first step. And I will end this intro with one of my favorite quotes from JRR Tolkien...
"The road goes ever on and on, Down from the door when it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then, I cannot say."
Hello to all and I hope to meet you on the trail !!!