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| Pole Creek Trail from Elkhart Trailhead, August 2020. I hope to join it soon, both in winter attire. |
Months have passed since those summer hikes in the Wind River Mountains. I have been living on a great piedmont that slopes from the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California to the seacoast. Time where a dream of winter returns to where I was.
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| Slide Lake Trail from Green River Lakes Trailhead, August 2020 |
In the final days of preparation I invite you to trip again like we did last summer. And if you did not join then, join now. These blog encounters act in substitute for the live presentations of other ventures, in the way zoom sits in for togetherness. Lets make the best of it with comments back and forth here on the blog or with email.
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| Diamond Lake from Big Sandy Trailhead, August 2020 |
I learn a lot about California by leaving it, by getting out of the cage I have chosen as home, living frugally to support difficult trips. The word “difficult” defines what travel is to me—seldom visited places, encountered with physical effort. To feel that I have arrived on home ground in foreign territory.
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| Sunrise east of Boulder, Wyoming, August 2020 |
Half the fun is planning and anticipation, which sometimes exceeds realization. This winter venture has been planning itself for months. Now it’s time to put myself in the plan and see how it fits into the snowy mountains above Pinedale, Wyoming. I don’t want to waste all that planning.
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| Home again. Winter this time |
The idea is to arrive at the same little motel, in the same little town on the southeast side of the Wind River Mountains where I stayed for the month of August and to go every day into the wild. Let’s go together, like we did last summer.
Yes, let's go together. Thinking of you, yesterday, as you put yourself in the plan. Well, the plan says it couldn't wait for you to join in. Now the plan will start playing on, and have fun!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Toti for joining me again. Your encouragement is worth a lot of photos and adds to weary steps on the way back to camp sometimes.
DeleteSharon!!!! up up and away again??? Bon Voyage. Please call sometime when you are snowbound with time to read Aristotle over the phone with me. If you can, take a few icy photos for us. I remember the designs of ice on the windows, back in my midwest era, and ice lining leftover leaves on trees, which make a high-pitched chime when the wind picks up. Record that, too, please.
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't say goodbye. Godspeed, from your unbelieving bud, Liz ps. looks like you picked a good time to getouttadodge.
Dear Liz,
DeleteMay I give you icy designs on windows, and high-pitched chimes of icy leaves on trees. I will look and listen and keep you in mind. We know extreme cold and have warm thoughts about it. At least in Wyoming we are allowed to go inside. I hope to return to a better Dodge.
Dearest Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI am excited for you as you take off into another adventure into the invigorating cold, snow, and welcome of a Wyoming landscape. Nothing like travel to give us a refreshed perspective. Enjoy, and stay safe. Love, Kathy
Welcome to the cold, Kathy. I know you have a share in it also. Tomorrow, it’s off to the north and winter in earnest. Thanks for joining in spirit as you always do.
DeleteHoly effing F%4#K!
ReplyDeleteThe skyline is super
but the cold swallows
my cojones in my gut.
You must wear a thicker jacket, Alex, and listen to your mother.
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