High Sierra Topix

Instead of digging up old threads I thought I would post here as I get things along from this summer.

There are still some videos I would like to add but who knows when I will do that since I have zero video editing experience.

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7

Rogue:
Maybe you wrote about this and I missed it. Did you climb Observation Peak? I climbed only one peak in my 500+ days of BP and it was that one. How could I not? What does its name tell you? And it really lives up to its name. My son Mike, 10yo, walked up there with me. On the peak is where I read about "the huge rainbows in Tunamah".

Your friend, Tom.

Yeah I did climb it. I didn't plan to but I went up anyway. A very nice view for sure.

That's allot of backpacking without doing peaks. I don't care much about the statistics of climbing peaks but I love the views!

As you probably remember, I had a real passion for fishing the Sierra and didn't want to take time from fishing to climb peaks. High, cross country passes were all the good views I needed.

This was taken about half way between the Forks of the Kern and Kern Flat. I caught these two (one male, one female) from the same "hole" about 7 hours apart. They were my first and last fish on the day. The larger was the last. They're both Browns.

wow dude, thats awesome photos. did you do that whole trip by yourself?

Yeah I was alone almost the whole trip. I met up with a PCT hiker at Lodegpole and we hiked together for 5 days.

On Dumbell Pass I met up with two guys and hiked with them the rest of the day and then camped with them. Also spent most of the next day talking to them before I had to get moving.

Other then that I was alone.

Luckily Week 12 is going allot faster then 11. I should be able to post that in a couple days.