Re: Granite Bear Pass- snow on northeast side?
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:10 pm
HI MK:
Glad to see u seemed to have snapped out of the funk u related to in an earlier story. (R U bringing Chilly Waters w/u on this trek?)
I snapped out of my post Lakes Basin Death March from last summer... swore I'd had it, was too old for this stuff and all the good places were beyond our capabilities to get to, spend time at, and still keep everthing w/in reason. It took about 3 months and then sitting down and reading other trip tales here; mostly the tales of the Tres Amigos in the Yosemite SE corner got my interest going again. So, thanks to some good advice from GB, The Old Ranger, Markskor, and a few others, we head north Thursday pm for Oakhurst and a hotel room, followed by hitting the Isberg Trail as early Friday as we can after picking up the permit. It's a nine day, 8 nite trek hopefully coming out over Electra after spending time at Red Devil Lake and then up the Lyell fork of the Merced....We'll see.
Mav, if you saw them in the backcountry, good thing you didn't blink as they are gazelles...If we weren't sitting down watching them come up Cartridge Pass, we sure would have missed them. In my next life I want a golf swing like Tiger's and legs like either one in the photo above. If nothing else when my wife comes at me w/a 9 iron I'll at least be able to outrun her.
Glad to see u seemed to have snapped out of the funk u related to in an earlier story. (R U bringing Chilly Waters w/u on this trek?)
I snapped out of my post Lakes Basin Death March from last summer... swore I'd had it, was too old for this stuff and all the good places were beyond our capabilities to get to, spend time at, and still keep everthing w/in reason. It took about 3 months and then sitting down and reading other trip tales here; mostly the tales of the Tres Amigos in the Yosemite SE corner got my interest going again. So, thanks to some good advice from GB, The Old Ranger, Markskor, and a few others, we head north Thursday pm for Oakhurst and a hotel room, followed by hitting the Isberg Trail as early Friday as we can after picking up the permit. It's a nine day, 8 nite trek hopefully coming out over Electra after spending time at Red Devil Lake and then up the Lyell fork of the Merced....We'll see.
Mav, if you saw them in the backcountry, good thing you didn't blink as they are gazelles...If we weren't sitting down watching them come up Cartridge Pass, we sure would have missed them. In my next life I want a golf swing like Tiger's and legs like either one in the photo above. If nothing else when my wife comes at me w/a 9 iron I'll at least be able to outrun her.