This is all the stuff that i am bringing into the backcountry. Things that are not in the picture are a lighter, and matches. This trip is all going to be with a striker. We are also going use lots of fires for cooking. Many stories to come, i will be returning on the final day of this month.
Peace out
1 liter thermus. ( Best thing ever!)
I think im lost in the color wheel
The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you
like the leaves of Autumn.
Fall poem by John Muir
On Fields O’er Which the Reaper’s Hand has Passed
On fields o’er which the reaper’s hand has pass’d
Lit by the harvest moon and autumn sun,
My thoughts like stubble floating in the wind
And of such fineness as October airs,
There after harvest could I glean my life
A richer harvest reaping without toil,
And weaving gorgeous fancies at my will
In subtler webs than finest summer haze.
Thoreau
On the 7th all the members of ACC attempted to summit longs peek. My hiking buddy was Ana, here and i started hiking around 4 am and reached the summit at 930. Longs Peek is about 14,200 feet tall. it was quite a hike with lots of cool things to take pictures of.
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Now that we have been back in Estes Park there has been mega amounts of climbing going on we have climbed at the Iron Clads and the Flatirons out side of boulder. When we were climbing at the Iron Clads I Top Roped a 5.10b, this is the hardest grade i have done yet to date with out falling. I also climbed up a 5.11a, but i fell a few times during that one.
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If you look at the picture above you can see a CU in the rock, the rout we fallowed up ran along the right side of the U. The name of the rout is ” College Drop out”.
The week we got back from our fourth of July vacation, we headed up to a place called grassy pass, here are some photos of the area and the view from the tent that i shared.