Doug- Thanks for the thumbs up! This hike wasn't just about the destination either...images return here and there, one in mind now is one that occured in the 1972 hike, when we were beginning our cross-country hike to the dome. We had left Cow Camp and were going overland to where we thought we should cross Crown Creek. Walking along Crown Meadow, enjoying its lushness (early June!), I ventured into it a little, only to discover how saturated it was...a thirty foot tall subalpine fir had fallen towards the center of the meadow, near where I stood, so I walked out onto it, each step sensing the 'give' of the spongy wet meadow along with the spongy decaying fir...had I not done a fairly graceful pirouhet (if I could do one, I should be able to spell one, huh?!) and returned to more solid terra firma, I would have surely 'sunk'~!
As good as the photos were in the report, being there (especially looking down into the Tehipite Valley - Burd's photos were taken before sunrise and a little washed out) the clarity and color will leave you awestruck! Speaking of Burd, it's worth taking a look at his webpage, he did all the high peaks in California, then the highest peaks by county, the branched out to do peaks out of state, ALL ON DAYHIKES, which is to say, within 24 hours, from trailhead, and back to trailhead. Pretty amazing! -Don > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:14:24 -0800 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENTS] PART ONE - WNTS Trip Report - Tehipite Dome - 1972 > To: [email protected] > > Don, > > excellent trip report! It really makes me want to visit this area. I know the > rattlesnakes might seem bad to alot of people but it only makes me want to go > even more. > > Doug > > > --- On Fri, 12/11/09, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]> > > Subject: [ENTS] PART ONE - WNTS Trip Report - Tehipite Dome - 1972 > > To: "Western Native Tree Society" <[email protected]>, > > [email protected], "DON BERTOLETTE" <[email protected]> > > Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 2:43 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > Sheeeshh!!! > > > > WNTS/ENTS folks- > > Just in time for snowbound holidays, I'm attaching > > Parts One (and Two in a later post, to keep file sizes > > smaller) of my WNTS Trip Report of Tehipite Dome, located in > > the Central Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, in > > 1972 (and Tehipite Valley in 1973, in Part Two). > > These two hikes were made in between spring semesters and > > summer jobs while I was a forestry student at Humboldt State > > University. I have no presentable photographs from > > that time, and may not have put forth this narrative, had it > > not been for an internet search that > > yielded digital images of essentially the same trip, > > done by Bob Burd in 2007. I am indebted to him for > > providing permission to use the photos you'll see in > > this trip report (unless otherwise attributed). > > Enjoy! > > Don Bertolette > > > > > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
