Emigrant Photos

Backpacking journal photos

Emigrant Wilderness - August 2003
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We arrived at Chipmunk Flat in the middle of the night

The group shot at Leavitt Lake

A tree at Chipmunk Flat in the morning light.

Leavitt Lake Road

An Emigrant snowpatch skier and his dog.

Joe sweating up to Leavitt Pass

Amy on the trail to Leavitt Pass

Amy and Joe atop Leavitt Pass

The group atop Leavitt Pass

Sudeep and Lutz on the trail up to Leavitt Pass.

Lutz lounges at "Silent Jeremy" Camp

Sudeep naps.

The trail to Big Sam at sunset.

Looking back at Brian on the trail up Big Sam.

Amy, Mojo and Odog (in the foreground) and Rauser and Sudeep (the specks in the distance) on the trail up Big Sam.

Utz checks out the view from atop Big Sam.

Amy and Joe on top of Big Sam.

Sudeep, Natty and Rauser on the way down Big Sam. High Emigrant Lake, Grizzly Lake, and Emigrant Meadow Lake are visible in the distance.

Amy and Mojo hang out overlooking Emigrant Meadow Lake.

Odog rests above Emigrant Meadow Lake.

Utz's award winning farmer's tan.

Utz poses for a T-Shirt design.

Amy watches the sunset over Emigrant Meadow Lake.

Mojo and Amy

In the distance a horse makes a break for it.

The white horse was eventually recovered.

Natty, Rauser, Utz and Mike D hike cross-country toward Cinko Lake.

We headed past Grizzly Peak through a trailess canyon toward Cinko Lake.

Rauser and Natty blaze a cross-country route toward Cinko Lake.

Amy and Joe at the trail intersection.

Lutz at the trail marker

Utz naps at Cinko Lake.

Mike D climbs up to get a view of Cinko Lake.

The speck in the bottom left corner is Rauser pulling in a trout.

Odog catches som shuteye at Cinko Lake.

Mojo crashes out at our campsite at Cinko Lake.

Lutz assumes the position, as Mojo crashes out on my sleeping pad.

Rauser proudly displays his fresh catches.

The two fish he caught measured 9 and 9 1/2 inches in length.

Rauser catches his third trout.

Rauser pulls his prize from the lake and squeezes it with his ultra-strength.

With his heat vision, Rauser renders the helpless fish even more helpless.

Upper Long Lake

A horsehit meadow near the PCT.

Mojo uses the meadow's facilities while Odog rolls around in the copious amounts of horseshit landmines that were planted by evil horespackers.

Lutz make Mojo look like a fool.

Lutz teases Mojo with a piece of food.

Finally, a skyscape worth photographing.

Kennedy Canyon hike... uphill.

Odog takes the lead up through Kennedy Canyon, which os still recovering from a severe avalanche in the eighties.

Mike D takes a snack at the top of Kennedy Canyon.

Utz and Mike D start up Leavitt Pass

Sudeep and Rauser climb the relentless uphill up Leavitt Pass.

Leavitt Lake from Leavitt Pass

Lutz and Mojo ty to catch some rest back at Leavitt Lake.

Odog and Mojo prepare to head home after a rainy night at Kennedy Meadows Camp.

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