Tag: Heart Lake
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Backpacking to Heart Lake and Chickenfoot Lake
For the two older kids, this was supposed to be a breeze of a trip—one to two mile days, relatively flat, and many rest breaks. I intentionally picked this short flattish trail, because while Rakesh and his kids, Noah and Siri, have gone backpacking before, to Hilton Creek Lakes on a moderately strenuous hike, this…
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James Peak Wilderness
Planning This trip can be considered a twenty-year celebration, when in 2006, Brad first joined me on a backpacking trip. The other special thing about this excursion is that I chatted with artificial intelligence to plan it. From the beginning, I asked Claude.ai for suggestions for a loop or in-and-out trail within two hours of…
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Kearsarge Pass
At last, Brad and I are standing at the Onion Valley trailhead on this very overdue trip. Way overdue. We had talked about doing such a trip off and on over the years—for nine years, to be exact. Only now has it materialized.
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Mono Basin and Little Lakes Valley
The gentle drizzle continues for the whole night, and by the next morning, everything outside the tent is completely soaked. We organize all of the food according to the grid, and then we pack up and set out toward Mono Pass. Cloud cover cools our climb above treeline. Right at the Pass, we stop for…
