Ahh Heck John, its just a day spent wandering around. Everyone has the opportunity to see stuff like this just get out there and do it!
Of course some of those places will try ta do a person in should one make a misstep of any sort!! Its the super waterfalls that really turn me inside out wanting to get to them by climbing up avalanche chutes and rappelling over cliffs but the sight is always worth the effort. I mean pools of Rainbow trout 18" to 24" in length, like OH Yum! Then having been young and stupid once, now only stupid, I was hiking and noticed I was walking past a section of old river bed hanging on a high cliff, I recall saying to myself "huh, an old river bed" and hiking on! I've never been able to re-find it and it irks me!
Yup, a lotta years spent out there and I will never stop wanting To Be Out There! Of course, being stupid, I've put on a total of 30 lbs that I Will get rid of and about that time I will get back out there.
My Regards to you Hoser as You must have seen some superb back country as well and some interesting under water things as you spent a lot of time under water and maybe a few hours under beer, tease!
All my best to any and all that choose to get out there and not leave a trace of having been there!
Regards..........................63bkpkr
Addendum: Injuries while "Out There"; chipped ankle bone, sprained ankle, more 'simple' cuts and bruises than I can recall (some of the scars stills show), heat stroke, broken leg, rescued out, hook in finger, rock on toe, almost injuries climbing trees to hang food bag, Sun Burns like to blisters(rafting), hiking into a clearing to find a HEAVY MUSKY ODOR SO STRONG IT MADE THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF MY NECK STAND UP and my right hand to pull the revolver from the holster and cock it (quite a few trails led out of that clearing), headache from water just melted out of snow. And then there is just going cross country (that means of course no trail) and when the angles get so weird that it creates vertigo (I really slapped my face hard to stop the brain spin on that one). But then when you come across a Bay Laurel tree that is almost 2' in diameter at the base you realize that you are in old country. At times you also come across old branch cuttings that have turned black they are so old, so someone has been there before you! What thrill!!
Hopefully someone finds it interesting.
Well it may be elementary rivers 101 but its cool to have some verbiage given to some of the ground/water/swamps we see out there during our adventures
And the person speaking has a lovely voice! I suspect these places might be termed "young river valleys" but they've been around for quite a few years................63bkpkr
Hey Jeff, Any time I can put a smile on someone's face well it is simply a pleasure! Be fun to be out with you and it is on my mind as well! That is an amazingly lovely little Sierra stream with more exploration to do than I've time for but I'd love to do at least a summer's worth of exploration there.
Now this picture was taken way out heck and back in no trail country and I just did not have enough time to do it justice but I know how to get back to it though my trail markers were burned up a few years back in a major Conflagration called poor forest management. {what I mean by doing it justice - I found the outer edges of a historic river bed being slowly uneartherd. The GMT was dead silent so it will be a few more years before the location of where the heavies went down to be unearthed. There are major seams of quartz in the area} another sigh.
The Ole Bronco coming out one more time with the front hubs locked in, compound low and four wheel drive. Oh by the way, this good old beast is in getting a few things taken care of though this will likely be my last major money dump on her as when these mods wear thin it will be time for a new
NF American
This spot is just a Wee Bit Touchy to keep from falling off of the ridge line which is about 12' wide and goes down precipitously on either side!
In the second picture I was intrigued to see how the mineralization has cemented the river bed together. So is this tempting or what!....................63bkpkr Just browsing out in the hills minding my own business with not another soul within miles of me cause I'm nuts and go into some squirrely places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahh, but the 25th of April commeth! Keep playing and dreaming and doing and trying just because.
