Day 0 Sarah picked Avery up from the airport at midnight. They had secured permits to North Cascades National Park a few months earlier. However, they hadn’t gotten any of the trips that they requested. Avery had checked the box “just give me something”. “Something” turned out to be a […]
Read MoreReunited – Day 1 Avery and Leah planned a 5 day, 4 night backpacking trip to Desolation Wilderness. Leah drove in from Reno and Avery from the Bay Area. They met at Echo Lake and took the water taxi across the lake. It was an uneventful hike from Echo lake […]
Read MoreSpent New Year’s at Zion National Park! We started the trip by flying into Vegas. While we waited for the rest of our group to meet in Vegas we did the Goldstrike Hot Springs trail. Here we are at the trailhead!
Read MoreWe decided on Yuba River as our next camping trip. There were a bunch of campsites along the river. We chose this one South Yuba Campground because we thought that since it was the only campsite in the area we would get a relatively secluded stretch of river to play […]
Read MoreUnion reservoir is part of a group of reservoirs in the Stanislaus National Forest. I had previously been to Spicer Reservoir (the largest in the area) on a camping trip with my brother’s boy scout troop. I thought that this would be an out of the way area for some […]
Read MoreOverall: 9 Location: 9 We camped right on the side of a mountain in a grove of Aspens (I think that’s what those trees are). It was beautiful in winter, but I imagine beautiful in spring/fall as well. The mammoth mountains and gorgeous and so are the plains to the […]
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