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Category Archives: Backpacking
Medicine Bow-Backpack #88
Almost every year for the last 20, we and a group of friends have taken a late August multi-day trek. Over the years we have hiked in areas whose beauty would have remain hidden to us had we not shouldered … Continue reading
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“Coming Around”
I am finally “coming around” after landing home seven days ago. My expectation of a quick recovery was highly inflated. With 10 days spent above 5,300′, five of those above 10,500′, I have been slow to settle back in my … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Backpacking, Colorado, Friends, Outside, Travel, Uncategorized, Wyoming
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Sleeping Below the Bald-Backpack 85
Hello from my long neglected blog. With Covid lockdown and lack of activities, I had little motivation to write. But things are opening up in the US and the Smith-Dunlap household is stirring so it’s time to shake the off … Continue reading
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John Muir Trail to Leatherwood Ford, BSFNRRA, Backpack #80
We went to the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area a couple of months ago to backpack with a group from our local Sierra Club. It was my 80th backpack. Not a bad number for backpacking for 20 … Continue reading
Weekend in the Wilderness: Backpacking, Abrams Creek…
Finally, after a three year hiatus, we completed another backpack! On the hottest, most humid weekend (to date) of Summer 2014, we shouldered our backpacks and hit the trail with friends, Sonya and Mac. Backpack #75 is in the log … Continue reading
Backpacking…
We are frantic around here, our house is in chaos. John and I are in the throes of preparing for an upcoming backpack, our first in three years. It is not that we are new to this rodeo, we’ve been … Continue reading
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