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Hey David, I really enjoyed reading you trip reports, especially the Treasure Lakes TR as I've been through there so many times. Beautiful photos and obviously you had some good fishing up there. Props to you for getting out and up there in good shape.
carrying maybe 55 pounds that included 2.6 pounds of Bose speakers
Did you let them rip!
They are just 6 watts that day hours carries only short distances. Actually was so busy only played them a bit mid day during a lunch so I regretted adding them into my pack haha.
carrying maybe 55 pounds that included 2.6 pounds of Bose speakers
Did you let them rip!
They are just 6 watts that day hours carries only short distances. Actually was so busy only played them a bit mid day during a lunch so I regretted adding them into my pack haha.
At our age it"s all good! I was envisioning classic Pink Floyd or a Mahler symphony while the trout sizzled on the frying pan. Anyway, thanks for posting. Its amazing how isolate one can get on these busy front country trails when everyone is in a rush to get over the crest.
... Anyway, thanks for posting. Its amazing how isolate one can get on these busy front country trails when everyone is in a rush to get over the crest.
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Indeed. Many of the most colorful metamorphic geologies and aesthetic landscapes are east of the Sierra Crest, yet groups like lemmings ignore such due to some imagined notions it is better on the other side. Tioga Pass is a prime example. Most drivers race up SR120 from Lee Vining passing all the most spectacular landscapes in order to enter the national park where gradients are far lower on average, less dramatic, often obscured by blocking forest. Or the 6k+ foot vertical notorious routes over the southern Sierra Crest where so many are intent in doing whole massive verticals in single days as though not accomplishing such reflects poorly on their abilities.
I've sometimes related how ironic it is that many backpackers will hike from trailheads, miles through virtually empty of people wilderness and then plunk down in trailside and lake side "villages" with camps every 100 yards or so and then complain about too many others. I'd bet there are significant numbers of backpackers that have NEVER EVER sited at camps that were not adjacent to trails or lake edges.
How can such a spectacular body of water like Long Lake with a heavily used trail on one side not have ANY SIGNs of recent year camp siting use on its other side despite the fact it really isn't difficult to reach that side? And its unused side is arguably one of the most visually spectacular in the range with good fishing? Well in part that is because many visitors only ever visit areas others have spouted are worthwhile without having an ability to figure out or imagine such places themselves despite considerable resources in this era on the web with maps and Google Earth. The above noted, it is true that more cross country oriented and experienced people that tend to dominate this board are less likely to be among the above.
