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Adamame
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Santa Cruz
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Dec 10, 2012 - 05:14pm PT
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A few more pics since I missed this the first time around
As for Billygoat's marriage...
The Bachelor's party was more memorable.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 10, 2012 - 11:45pm PT
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The date of this is sometime during the eighties, maybe '87 or '88. The time of the year is late, late summer. There's been some snowfall at the highest elevations, but it's gone. There is a good snowpack. The crews were taking everything down for the winter at the Meadows, where we walked in part way the first afternoon.
The next day we went across Donahue Pass to the Water Meadows (my name) below the S. Face of Donahue Peak. Then we camped, lolled in the late afternoon sun, and left for Marie Lakes next morning, got the East Arete in good time, went to the bottom of the Lyell Glacier, back over Donahue Pass, thus making a circle.
If my "north" is skewed, never mind. You either get it or not. It's Veronica Lake, too, kids. Your grampa's dream date.
Next day we walked out, had the last cheeseburgers made at the grill that year, and went back to whence we came. It was a tour. It was a trip.
Full TR next year.
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billygoat
climber
Pees on beard to seek mates.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2012 - 02:54pm PT
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Yeah, I think we need to have a backcountry divorce party! I'm in better shape now and I could fraternize more easily with the girls... isn't that what they call it these days?
Classic quote of the trip. as we're getting to the car in Mono Meadows. I'm limping, cursing Adam for thinking I could easily do this sort of thing post grad program. (As for the belly, that's why I took the bigger pack. I figured I had to balance out the weight on the frontside.) So we're just back at the car and he turns to me and says, "well, that's the biggest thing I did all summer." I guess I wasn't in THAT bad of shape. I mean, I made it and lived to tell another tale... (one coming soon)
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 11, 2012 - 08:40pm PT
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I like that red glacier polish!
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Dec 12, 2012 - 01:23am PT
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I missed this thread the first time around. My favorite area. The trip first described is almost the reverse of one I once did - Late one afternoon, I went from Upper Lyell Basin to Upper Marie Lake. I wish I had brought a camera, as this was the most awesome place and pass I have ever visited, without question.
Here's a few shots from the neighborhood taken on other jaunts:
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