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Hey, Lambertiana, was that a campsite alongside Guitar Lake that I noticed in one of your posts?
 
Thanks lambertiana! Those look a lot more familiar, now I'm getting home sick to go camping:( I didn't get a chance this year with school and all, and now I've gotta wait all winter too. I've been snowed on while in the mountains, but I don't purposefully go when there is snow, btw you're crazy!(regarding 2nd pic)


Midwest: Come on out to all the way west, then you won't have to be jealous. You could be lounging on the beach one day then be in lambertiana's scenery for the weekend.
 
hikeeba said:
Thanks for the info on your tipi, stuartyr! HD, how about the scoop on yours?
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Hikeeba,

Sorry I missed you asking the first time.

It is a 2 pole shelter called an REI Gimme Shelter. Summer before this last one we went hiking with Joezilla and Rob from KF and Joe had one. I was admiring his and liked the fact that it set up with hiking poles and was really compact.

REI stopped making them but Joe hooked me up with another forumite who had a brand new one he had never used.

We like it. It is VERY tight for 2 people but weighs around 3 lbs or less, so we put up with the tightness. Also like any single wall there is condensation if it rains and it must be pitched really well if you are experiencing a hard rain.
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A plus is that it has loops and if you have 2 trees you can do without the poles:thumbup:

I have a North Face Tadpole 23 and if hard rain was predicted I'd eat the extra almost 2 lbs and bring it, but I love the hell out of the Gimme Shelter.

Thanks to it in summer I can fit all my gear in this small pack The blue thing is a Lafuma Warm and Light 40 degree bag I got on sale for 50 bucks from Campmor. It is about 8" long and 4" across in the stuff sack!
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Nessmuk?

A great backpacking lunch. Salmon Brie baguet and apple. I almost lost my knife at this stop. Washed it off in the creek, walked about 100 yards up the trail and then remembered!
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Seriously, one of the coolest threads created yet!!:thumbup:
This is the reason many of us are so into blades, to get "out there" and use them while enjoying wild places. This should be a regular thread...
 
comoha said:
Seriously, one of the coolest threads created yet!!:thumbup:
This is the reason many of us are so into blades, to get "out there" and use them while enjoying wild places. This should be a regular thread...
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I hear ya on that! It makes me want to just go and set up camp for a few days. I have to seriously have to start bringing my camera more often.
 
ATM I only got pictures taken when we were heading from here to there , not from when we go somewheres to just camp and hike and spend time .. anyway here goes :)

THis is somewhere out near-ish the red center ...
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and this is near the coast
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next year after the hols , I should have a few more , some of northern QLD in wet season with any luck
 
raindog101 said:
Hey, Lambertiana, was that a campsite alongside Guitar Lake that I noticed in one of your posts?
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Yes, the middle picture in post #40 is at Guitar Lake. The last picture in post 39 is from another trip, and is at the pond just above Guitar Lake, which is a much better campsite.

And it shouldn't be too hard to figure out the location for the last picture in post 42, that location ends up in a lot of pictures in Backpacker magazine (for good reason).
 
Aye, it's on the cover of the Dec. issue. The first issue I've purchased, so I gotta ask, is that the JMT? What's the altitude?
 
Lambertiana, the reason I asked that, is that was the exact spot I pitched my tent at Guitar Lake 2 years ago, when I did the JMT. I thought that view looked familiar...
 
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