Off to Wyoming!
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:27 pm
I am off to the Wind Rivers Wednesday, to return after Labor Day. I have 4-5 trips planned; most 6-8 day duration, one 12 days; all but one I will do solo. Cannot say that I will be doing the prime trips in the Winds and hate to ask anyone to go with me on these trips. This year my objective is to check out a number of really remote places to get some new photos, verify a route in an area I have never been to, and see what lasting damage the Alpine Lake Fire of 2012 has done. I think it wiped out a few trails. If all goes well, I plan on a second edtion to my guidebook to come out early 2017.
I have pre-packed all my food, and have three sets of hiking clothes. Although I usually have opportunites to wash clothes and buy food between trips, for me, it has been easier to do all this work up front. I have 2-3 trips on the Wind River Indian Reservatioin, and I will fish on these, because you are require to buy a "crossing permit" which is also a fishing permit, basically fish for free. I qualify for the senior rate so the annual pass is only $65. I will not likely fish on the national forests, because the Wyoming out-of-state fishing license is very expensive and they do not have any senior rates. I may buy a 2-day permit for some known good fishing lakes.
The NOAA snow satallite images snow a new skiff of snow last night above 9000 feet! Brrr! Frost warnings in surrounding towns. I will not get on the trial until Saturday, and things are supposed to warm up a bit by then. And those regular afternoon thunderstorms. They had an above average snowpack, a lot late season, but it has been melting pretty good. Streams have peaked and are coming down, thank goodness. I expect a week or so of mosquitoes, hoping the worst is past. I now just keep my fingers crossed that no forest fires start.
I won't be posting trip reports, but will be able to connect to the form between trips.
I have pre-packed all my food, and have three sets of hiking clothes. Although I usually have opportunites to wash clothes and buy food between trips, for me, it has been easier to do all this work up front. I have 2-3 trips on the Wind River Indian Reservatioin, and I will fish on these, because you are require to buy a "crossing permit" which is also a fishing permit, basically fish for free. I qualify for the senior rate so the annual pass is only $65. I will not likely fish on the national forests, because the Wyoming out-of-state fishing license is very expensive and they do not have any senior rates. I may buy a 2-day permit for some known good fishing lakes.
The NOAA snow satallite images snow a new skiff of snow last night above 9000 feet! Brrr! Frost warnings in surrounding towns. I will not get on the trial until Saturday, and things are supposed to warm up a bit by then. And those regular afternoon thunderstorms. They had an above average snowpack, a lot late season, but it has been melting pretty good. Streams have peaked and are coming down, thank goodness. I expect a week or so of mosquitoes, hoping the worst is past. I now just keep my fingers crossed that no forest fires start.
I won't be posting trip reports, but will be able to connect to the form between trips.
