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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

Recent Pack Trip - What I Learned (part 3)

Layover days are a good thing.
Actually, I already knew this. I just need to be reminded from time to time. When I first started backpacking the idea of staying in one place for two nights just seemed absurd, and I never did this. We moved every day to a new camp site.
On last week’s [...]

2007 08 03 Dan Mitchell Commentary Comments (0)

Recent Pack Trip - What I Learned (part 2)

Glaciers are shrinking in the Sierra Nevada.
Over decades of backpacking in the Sierra, I’ve watched the conditions change from year to year. But this year I saw something that I had not noticed in the past. I spent several days in sight of glaciers above Ediza Lake in the Ansel Adams wilderness area, so I [...]

2007 08 02 Dan Mitchell Commentary
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Recent Pack Trip - What I Learned (part 1)

After nearly 40 years of backpacking (starting at the age of 1 month? or not? ;-) you’d think that there wouldn’t be a lot more for me to learn about the techniques of this endeavor. However, after nearly every trip, and certainly after every season, I do discover new things - about the places I [...]

2007 08 01 Dan Mitchell Environment
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