The Windows XP Hill
Kevin and I saw this hill and thought it looked just like the one on the Windows XP desktop, so I had to take a picture of it.
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The Windows XP Hill |
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Baldy from Afar For the rest of our trek we were hiking away from Baldy, and it really shows how much we traveled. This is one day after climbing Baldy. |
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Baldy from Afar |
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Fire Damage at Santa Claus On our way from Head of Dean, where we did our conservation project, to Santa Claus, where we were spending the night, we passed through this portion of the forest. I vividly remembered this area from two years before because it is where I hurt my knee. It was completely different once the fire came through. This was a very depressing walk for me. |
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Fire Damage at Santa Claus We noticed this tree had been struck by lightening, and although we have no proof, we believe it was the strike that caused the fire in the area. |
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Santa Claus When we arrived at Santa Claus, Skip, our crew leader, looked at the map and said to go to either campsite 1 or 3, but not 2. We were walking towards 3 when I noticed that campsite 2 had a picnic table and I announced that we would be staying there. After seeing the picnic table, no one argued. We think that a previous crew had moved it from the old staff cabin, but we didn't complain. This was the night that I really felt our crew "gel" and become a crew, rather than companions. |
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Deer Lake Mesa The next day we went on our longest scheduled hike: 7 clicks as the crow flies and about 15 on the trail. On our way, we crossed the highway, and Visto Grande (which we realized was incorrectly named; Visto Grande means "I see big"; Vista Grande is "Big View"). We arrived at Deer Lake Mesa, which we had been calling the DLM and to our surprise found no deer, a lake the size of a pool with water as dirty as that in Cimarroncito and a mesa the size of my backyard. We were disappointed, but we would only be there for about 15 hours, so we didn't complain too much. |
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Cathedral Rock The next day we had just as long of a day as the day before. We then realized that the rest of the trek was all 15 click days, with the exception of from Cypher's Mine to Red Hills, which was only 7 clicks plus Phillips. We went to Clark's Fork, where we met all of the crews who were hiking into base camp the next day. We got to laugh when we told them we were still hiking all the way over to Phillips and back, via 4 mountains. I was very, very, very, very, very disappointed in the Clark's Fork camp fire. They sang a few songs, including the Buffalo Dance, which was fun, but it was nothing compared to Pueblano. (You might be wondering why I am talking about Clark's Fork on a picture of Cathedral Rock. I didn't take any pictures of Clark's Fork, and so since Cathedral Rock is almost part of Clark's Fork, I decided to talk about it here.) |
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Cathedral Rock This is Cathedral Rock, with that same black sleeping pad that appears in so many of my photographs (it belongs to Kevin). |
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"Stomp" at Cypher's Mine We went to Cypher's Mine next, and participated in all the activities, including the Tough Guy Competition. Skip, our crew leader, represented our crew with a great made up story. Had we competed 48 hours later, we would have won without any lies. Cypher's Mine's Campfire is the "Stomp," where they sing many great songs and pack 100 people into a cabin fit to hold 25 lit by gas lanterns (the fire marshall would have a field day). The songs they sang were AWESOME. They included Friend of the Devil by the Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold by Bob Dylan, Fire in the Mountain and a misplaced I Will Survive. They also told many of the same great stories that Pueblano tells, but with less humor and many less logger references. There was obviously a Dead Head on the staff (PJ, I think) because there were about 20 Grateful Dead references during the stories. |
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