Desolation Wilderness - August 2018

Great stories Smoke! Glad to be stirring up happy memories for you! :)

Smokecreek1 said:
Thanks guys, that brings back allot of memories from the days before people really discovered that place and the Sierras in general. Despite the haze and smoke, I could feel being there again. like you guys. I spent allot of time wondering around that country in those days before wilderness permits and the such and that reminds me of a adventure me and a friend had in Desolation Wilderness in 1968-69. Anyway, both were just out of the service and were working at one of the casinos: we spent allot of time day hiking, fishing and backpacking just about anywhere .

So we had a few days off and decided to head into Desolation and so some fishing and back packing-don't remember how we went in (just looked at the map-looks different ), but after a few days we were taking a break in the south end somewhere and we could see HW 50 above us-not that far away (the trail seemed to head up to the HW, but we just sat there on this log next to the trail talking. Then we starting hearing people talking (we had not seen anyone on our trip so far)and much to our surprise we could see a line of people -in the distance walking down the trail-toward us! It turned out they were Japanese tourists and they were on a bus that stopped at a pull over up on 50, so they could have a wilderness experience or something :cautious:! So much for those private wilderness places close by, civilization had found us, just have to go deeper in the back country. Anyway, guys-thanks brought back allot a memories!

Smoke
 

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