Rincon La Osa backpacking photos

[ilanarama]

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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[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Most people do! But actually, I had a lot of time to read - read most of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin while Britt was fishing, or while hanging out, or while we lounged around in the tent waiting for the rain to just STOP already, GODDAMMIT.

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.