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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 25, 2021 8:38:13 GMT -8
Due at Wawona Hotel on August 30; my lux initial “basecamp” since they canceled White Wolf. My Yosemite routes are inked in with permits while my Sequoia is outside their quota period so I’m playing it more by ear; maybe Deadman’s and or Cloud Canyon area… ?
Though I’m tempted to look at the east side, it’s been too long. So many trailheads! 😍😍😍
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Post by Travis on Jul 25, 2021 12:00:17 GMT -8
Sounds like too much fun. You sure you want to go through with this? J/K
Have a great time.
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Post by reuben on Jul 25, 2021 12:51:32 GMT -8
IMHO, a little glamping is OK now and then.
Have a great time.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 25, 2021 14:29:43 GMT -8
It’s a mix, the hotel (I’d really wanted to hit White Wolf Lodge as it was fixed and scheduled to reopen and I’d never stayed there; then tptb canceled opening the Tioga Road accommodations and I figured another place I’d never stayed more than one night was Wawona…), then a six day backpack, then three days of car camping, then a ten day backpack out from Glacier Pt as that won’t be possible next year as they totally redo that road. ; then off down one side of the Sierra or the other. Ultimately back up the coast to cross back to PA via something northern as it’s been awhile. Going out won’t be anything fancy; probably simply west to Ely NV then head for Lee Vining across that big empty.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 26, 2021 7:51:42 GMT -8
High Sierra Fan, you’ll just miss us. I’ll be all over the eastern Sierra dayhiking and backpacking with my BiL and SiL, ending about the time you arrive.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 26, 2021 9:47:53 GMT -8
High Sierra Fan, you’ll just miss us. I’ll be all over the eastern Sierra dayhiking and backpacking with my BiL and SiL, ending about the time you arrive. Anywhere near Humphrey Basin? That was my introduction to the Sierra in college and still a favorite. |
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 26, 2021 12:14:07 GMT -8
Not too far from there; one of our backpacks is just over the next past to the north, up to Granite Park.
And the Humphrey’s Basin was also my into to the Sierra, as a grad student in Santa Barbara!
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 26, 2021 12:30:38 GMT -8
Undergrad at UCSD for me!
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 26, 2021 16:13:08 GMT -8
Undergrad at UCSD for me! Second Son just graduated from there.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 26, 2021 17:08:31 GMT -8
Undergrad at UCSD for me! Second Son just graduated from there.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jul 30, 2021 14:52:01 GMT -8
My intro to backpacking was a college class too. Started at Lake Edison heading for the Hilgard Branch.
First saw Yosemite on that trip too. (Our class drove over 120 from the east side to the trailhead.)
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 30, 2021 17:44:37 GMT -8
hikerchick395, I was introduced to backpacking as a child. But I never saw the Sierra until I was a grad student  Solo trip into the Humphries Basin.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 31, 2021 11:06:05 GMT -8
Piute Pass and Humphreys was chosen by the far more experienced classmate for our group of five undergrads on our own visit. His dad was a geology professor at Caltech so he’d spent his summers on the PNW glacial volcanoes. Another was from Oregon and equally experienced: told me about REI and that led to my membership, #170xxx.
Early June and the basin was still mostly under snowpack; ten plus feet in places., later visits involved FAR less sunburn lol
ETA: Hmm, this has me rethinking my second route, although with the GP road closed next year maybe I should stick with it GP> Ottoway Lakes etc.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Nov 27, 2021 23:02:02 GMT -8
Fun trip, made some adjustments for fires and such but otherwise it went very well.
Boy is there a lot of country out there without even basic cell service. Good thing my truck (and I) had satellite nav!
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Post by Travis on Nov 28, 2021 10:51:07 GMT -8
Good to see you back, HSF. Boy is there a lot of country out there without even basic cell service. That's certainly true of Wyoming — and evidently large portions of Western States. |
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Solo trip into the Humphries Basin.