Doodles
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Zer0-G and I drove up to the Daks on Fri night and camped so we would be in position for an early start Sat morning. We arrived at the PA at Coreys at about 6:30. We met up with a group of VFTT members heading up to Sawtooth #5. We chatted for a few minutes and continued to get ready for our quest for 4 peaks.
We departed the PA at about 7:30 and headed towards Blueberry Lean-to. The trail was very wet and muddy and a lite rain was threatning. We caught up with the Sawtooth
group at the lean-to where everyone was taking a quick break.
Time to move on. We crossed the first bridge, found the cairn and started up the herd path to Seward. We continued to follow the path along the brook all the way until there was no more brook. All of a sudden, OH NO THERE WAS NO MORE PATH! After a minute of contemplating what to do next, the decision was, GO UP!
This was easier said than done. I think it would have been easier breaking out of prison than pushing thru the thick steep terrain.
We were making progress slowly and then we seperated to get around a steep cliff. Zer0-G went right and I went left. We were yelling to each other to keep track of one another and to see who would find the way up. As I traversed the lower wall, I saw what appeared to be a fiberglass panel with rivet holes. What in the world is this doing up here?? I went a little further and found a larger piece of debris, and then looked up and saw a large pile of wreckage. I yelled to Zer0-G "hey, I think I found a plane". What, "I said I think I found a plane wreck". What kind of plane he responded. "A freaking air plane, I don't know, what kind of plane, a broken one." After a few minutes we both converged on the wreck. This is where I tried to convince Zer0-G that, if we didn't lose the herd path, we would never had found this plane wreck. We took a few pictures and decided we weren't going to summit standing around and the plane wasn't going our way either.
We finally broke thru and found the summit. We took a lunch break along with group of young hikers who were on the same peak quest as we were. The leader of the group suggested that we may want to go down by Calkins Brook after Donaldson and Emmons.
We did continue on to Donaldson and then Emmons where we decided that it was a good idea to go down the Calkins Brook trail since it was dry and a none confusing choice as the multiple paths that we encountered on the top of Seward. This decision would add considerable milage since we had to get back to the Blueberry area for the next days hike.
We finally make it back and set up camp for the night.
A thunderstorm and heavy rain blew through during the night, but was all over by morning.
We broke camp and started for Seymour. It was a steep steady climb up the right side of the slide. We were a bit disapointed by the no views because of socked in cloud cover. Looked like a great peak for views. (but we did not complain. No complaining allowed.)
We had lunch on the wind swept summit and started back down. By the time we got down the sun had come out and the clouds had cleared. One of us said "clouds are gone, do you want to go back up"?
We will have to get the views on another trip. We took a quick break and headed back out to the PA for the trip home. The hike back out to the PA was a wet and muddy trip. At the end I heard a long SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH. I guess Zer0-G was tired of trying to keep his last pair of socks dry. I yelled ahead, "sounds like the march of the I don't care how wet I get".
The wet and the mud did not dampen our spirits. We never laughted so hard as Zer0-G conquered the mud pits.
Another good trip with a great hiking partner.
George
http://community.webshots.com/album/551902373frXTxm
We departed the PA at about 7:30 and headed towards Blueberry Lean-to. The trail was very wet and muddy and a lite rain was threatning. We caught up with the Sawtooth
group at the lean-to where everyone was taking a quick break.
Time to move on. We crossed the first bridge, found the cairn and started up the herd path to Seward. We continued to follow the path along the brook all the way until there was no more brook. All of a sudden, OH NO THERE WAS NO MORE PATH! After a minute of contemplating what to do next, the decision was, GO UP!
This was easier said than done. I think it would have been easier breaking out of prison than pushing thru the thick steep terrain.
We were making progress slowly and then we seperated to get around a steep cliff. Zer0-G went right and I went left. We were yelling to each other to keep track of one another and to see who would find the way up. As I traversed the lower wall, I saw what appeared to be a fiberglass panel with rivet holes. What in the world is this doing up here?? I went a little further and found a larger piece of debris, and then looked up and saw a large pile of wreckage. I yelled to Zer0-G "hey, I think I found a plane". What, "I said I think I found a plane wreck". What kind of plane he responded. "A freaking air plane, I don't know, what kind of plane, a broken one." After a few minutes we both converged on the wreck. This is where I tried to convince Zer0-G that, if we didn't lose the herd path, we would never had found this plane wreck. We took a few pictures and decided we weren't going to summit standing around and the plane wasn't going our way either.
We finally broke thru and found the summit. We took a lunch break along with group of young hikers who were on the same peak quest as we were. The leader of the group suggested that we may want to go down by Calkins Brook after Donaldson and Emmons.
We did continue on to Donaldson and then Emmons where we decided that it was a good idea to go down the Calkins Brook trail since it was dry and a none confusing choice as the multiple paths that we encountered on the top of Seward. This decision would add considerable milage since we had to get back to the Blueberry area for the next days hike.
We finally make it back and set up camp for the night.
A thunderstorm and heavy rain blew through during the night, but was all over by morning.
We broke camp and started for Seymour. It was a steep steady climb up the right side of the slide. We were a bit disapointed by the no views because of socked in cloud cover. Looked like a great peak for views. (but we did not complain. No complaining allowed.)
We had lunch on the wind swept summit and started back down. By the time we got down the sun had come out and the clouds had cleared. One of us said "clouds are gone, do you want to go back up"?
We will have to get the views on another trip. We took a quick break and headed back out to the PA for the trip home. The hike back out to the PA was a wet and muddy trip. At the end I heard a long SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH. I guess Zer0-G was tired of trying to keep his last pair of socks dry. I yelled ahead, "sounds like the march of the I don't care how wet I get".
The wet and the mud did not dampen our spirits. We never laughted so hard as Zer0-G conquered the mud pits.
Another good trip with a great hiking partner.
George
http://community.webshots.com/album/551902373frXTxm
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