Backpacking Aug 2009
Wow! Where to begin with a mind so full of incredible memories. Among other things forgotten was the necessary notebook so most of this will be from memory. Also this will be an extremely edited 'public' version but should give a good gist of the trip without incriminating any of us (not that we did anything incriminating). I was a little nervous about the trip since I hadn't seen many of these friends in over 20 years and hadn't done any 'true' backpacking in quite awhile. Even though I had worked on trails with the CCC and spent a lot of time in the backcountry, having all your gear packed in by mules is a far cry from packing it all in. The trip actually began Friday night with Gordon Metz picking me up at my house and we had about a 7 hour drive ahead of us. It was like I had seen Gordy just yesterday and no time had passed. What an awesome drive and catch up time. We got to Sonora Pass about 1:00 am and spent the next hour looking for Shawn and Paul ...