Rincon La Osa backpacking photos
Jul. 9th, 2008 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

I don't have a lot to say, so I'll just link to the Flickr photoset. Our goal this trip was to get into the upper valley of Rincon La Osa, a high valley that runs from the Continental Divide to the Pine River. (Which I am crossing in the photo above. That is a grimace, not a grin, because that river is very recent snowmelt.) It took two days to get there; we stayed there a day and dayhiked up to Gunsight Pass on the Divide, and then it took two days to hike out by a slightly different route (on the way in we went via Divide Lake, on the way out via Granite Lake, but the trails rejoined shortly after the lakes). We saw lots of deer and elk, but too far away for decent photos. Britt fished a lot. The weather mostly sucked, but when it was nice, it was lovely. Um. Not a particularly exciting trip report, sorry. :-) But it was awesome to get away from people and into the mountains again.
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Date: 2008-07-10 12:55 pm (UTC)I'm headed up Monday for a week crawling around the passes in Ouray and Silverton.
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Date: 2008-07-10 01:35 pm (UTC)A couple of years ago we and some friends did that...we were gonna hike but it rained a lot. We ended up going down Poughkeepsie Pass between Silverton and Ouray - I was DAMN glad it wasn't OUR truck (the other two guys were driving). But you know, if you like that sort of thing... :-)
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Date: 2008-07-10 08:40 pm (UTC)It's not bad if your truck is built for it.
I plan on stopping more and taking more pix and checking out stuff..for instance below that hard part at Pough. at the base of the shale hill is a BEAUTIFUL waterfall..getting to it is tough though at that elevation, at least for me ;( A 50' walk at 13k is *tough*..I admire people who RUN it.
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Date: 2008-07-11 05:36 pm (UTC)I can also highly recommend backpacking as a way to eat a lot and still lose weight, or at least not gain any. Nothing to ramp ye old metabolism up like carrying a backpack around.
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