Helen Lake backpack

Helen Lake backpack

Morgan Brown

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Books that Morgan
Recommends...

The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails

By R.J. Secor. The High Sierra hiking/climbing guidebook. Amazingly exhaustive. An indispensible trip planning aid.

My comical solo overnight trip to the Mono Pass area in August, 1998 was my first solo trip, first in a very long time, and first since arriving in grad school. I had some vague plans to camp somewhere high, like Koip Peak Pass. To make a long story short, I got lost long before the pass and ended up spending a long and windy night at Helen Lake (illegally, I might add). Though I had no stove and no cookable food, my REI metal frame pack must have weighed 50 pounds, packed with a tent, sleeping back, therm-a-rest, (unused) flyfishing gear, and to top it off, a very heavy flourescent Coleman lantern!

A trip report can be found here

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mp00-tripmap-topo.jpg (287 KB)	mp00-tripmap.jpg (61 KB)	mp00-tripmap.tif (1814 KB)
mp01-lewis.jpg (156 KB) Mt. Lewis (elev. 12,400 ft.) f...	mp02-helen-spillway.jpg (126 KB) After getting lost, I found my...	mp03-helen-kuna.jpg (143 KB) Helen Lake (elev. 11,000 ft.) ...
mp04-parkerpass-ck.jpg (113 KB) Parker Pass Creek valley, as p...	mp05-parkerpass-ck-2.jpg (119 KB) Parker Pass Creek, looking ups...	mp06-parker-pass-trailmap.gif (111 KB) Not a trip I've taken, but one...

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