Wow, I am sooooo jealous of your great trip!
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon
A lot smarter idea than what I was did as a teenager. A couple of us found a rotten
inflatable raft behind a tree. The lake was at 9000ft early summer with a lot of ice
still floating on it. We blew up the raft and patched the pinholes with pine sap, then
carved a couple of oars. Paddled to an island a couple hundred yards offshore for some
exceptional trout fishing. But halfway back the boat sank, so we had to swim about
100 yds through the ice floes. I was literally blue and suprised we had survived.
Looks like you had an excellent trip
Sounds wonderful!
I have a two person Klepper (about 17 foot). It would be fun to get on a lake like that...it has been a few decades since I was at Thousand Island Lake! The Klepper is over 30 years old and still doing well!
While I hiked and hand-led the mules for most of my wilderness ranger days, occasionally I rode a horse. I was always getting off to walk to loosen up my knees...and to relieve the poor animal that had to carry my weight up steep trails!
But before I pack in the Klepper on mules, I would have my 8x10 packed into the high country. I had that done and it was wonderful!
Vaughn
Looks great! The Ritter Range is one of my favorite places in the Sierra. What a place float lazily on the water under those mountains! The shots from Banner Peak bring back memories of my climb--we did it from Ediza up to the Banner-Ritter Saddle. We also wanted to do Ritter, but there were too many rocks flying down the high angle bowling alley!
--P
Preston-Columbia CA
"If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse; that comes a little cheaper."
I would love to do that sometime... I'm jealous! Looks like a beautiful place.
Regards
Erik
I was just there two weeks ago... and couldn't believe how many kayaks were on that lake. Fairly long portage!
Robert Oliver
Looks like a great time! I have been there several times and you could not find a more beautiful place to kayak.
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