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HitTheTrail
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Joined: 30 Oct 2007
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Location: 509 |
My most recent backpack purchase was an Ultimate Direction Fast Pack 45. They are designed to be used by trail runners, but I liked the weight and made some modifications to be more friendly for backpacking. Now, I needed to do a test run. I told my wife I would be gone 30 hours and headed up Chatter Creek to the basin just below Grindstone Mt. I had been up (and down) Chatter Creek quite a few times but this trip made me decide it was probably my last trip up that gawd awful trail. But I might go down it again on a loop trip.
Trip synopsis: steep and rocky on a hot day, lots of bugs, still a beautiful and closeby hike.
The pack seemed to work fine with my mods and may have potential. I will post the mods in the gear thread.
 Start of trail  Just left of small basin upper center sit Ruth and Kara, my love interests  Grindstone from Chatter Creek trail  Looking back down Chatter Creek  My camp  Morning coffee view  Cape Horn center left sits above Edna Lake  Selfie before hiking out  Trail running son-in-law with K9
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FiveNines
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If it's not steep it's flat. Chatter Creek is both.
I take this picture every time I go up or down this way. Would like to get to headwaters of Trout Creek, but never seem to make the effort.
| HitTheTrail wrote: | Just left of small basin upper center sit Ruth and Kara, my love interests |
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Bootpathguy
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| HitTheTrail wrote: | My camp |
I really like this image and sun filtering through the trees. Looks peaceful
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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wanderwild
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I recognize your son in law. I used to take courses with him at UW!
"Whatever your mountain, climb on."
"Whatever your mountain, climb on."
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HitTheTrail
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| wanderwild wrote: | | I recognize your son in law. I used to take courses with him at UW! |
Yeah, he got an BSc and MSc from UW as I recall. But he is a transplant from the midwest. Our daughter also got a couple of degrees from there. That's where they met.
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wildernessed
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Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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Location: Wenatchee |
While the Chatter Creek trail sucks much like Snow lakes trail and I swore off each of them long ago there are quite a few good places they take you to.
Living in the Anthropocene
Living in the Anthropocene
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Get Out and Go
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Joined: 13 Nov 2004
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Location: Leavenworth |
That does look like a pleasant campsite. I can't recall seeing that one, but then, it has been a few years since I've gone up that way (and experienced the knee-pounding descent, as well  )!
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
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