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I've been browsing John Muir Trail info - the cables are now up at Half Dome for the summer season and people are getting through to Kennedy Meadows - and browsed my way into an ultralight backpacking site. For spork fans, here are some really nice sporks:
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/bpl_titanium_mini_spork.html
"...a real spork eating bowl with tines sharp enough to filet a trout or spear a chunk of synthetic protein ..." Yum! I love synthetic protein. No, really, I do. Light Life Fakin' Bacon is Teh Best.
I like the tinted titanium ones towards the bottom of the page.
Hey this is a really nice site. http://www.sierranevadawild.gov/ This and Yosemite’s http://www.yosemitefun.com/ look to be really good, better than the official park sites.
Huh, I’ve backpacked in quite a few of these. Desolation, Emigrant (lots!), Yosemite, Ansel Adams, Dinkey Lakes (my first Calif. Backpacking experience), and Sequoia/Kings Canyon. I think I car-camped in Carson-Iceberg once. I should try Granite King, Molekumne, and investigate Carson-Iceberg some more – they’re certainly all relatively close.
http://www.sierranevadawild.gov/Sierra_Wilderness.htm
Here’s an interesting bear site by professionals trying to keep the tourists and campers from killing the bears by habituating them to humans and their food. You know, it just reminds me of why I like the backcountry of Emigrant so much – no bears; they’ve gone to Yosemite for the summer. http://www.sierrawildbear.gov/ NICE bear photo: http://www.sierrawildbear.gov/biology/index.htm
Backpacking. Sierra. Hot springs. Wow.! Beautiful http://www.yosemitefun.com/backpacking.htm#The%20John%20Muir%20Trail
This is interesting – the Nat’l Park Service report on incidents. Sounds like something the little details folks would like. Oh dear, there was a presumed fatality here in the Bay Area today. Sad. http://www.nps.gov/applications/morningreport/index.cfm Yikes, NPS shipped a loaded gun without know it? Oh dear!
5/30 report: Interesting info on the current attempts to summit Denali, or, specifically, the failures to do so. Yikes: A 33-year-old Utah man fell over 3,300 feet on a ski descent of Mt. McKinley late on the evening of Thursday, May 25th, but suffered only minor injuries in the fall. As of last Friday, there were 423 mountaineers attempting Mt. McKinley, with another 13 climbing Mt. Foraker. So far this year, 89 climbers have reached McKinley’s summit, with no recorded summits of Mt. Foraker.
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/bpl_titanium_mini_spork.html
"...a real spork eating bowl with tines sharp enough to filet a trout or spear a chunk of synthetic protein ..." Yum! I love synthetic protein. No, really, I do. Light Life Fakin' Bacon is Teh Best.
I like the tinted titanium ones towards the bottom of the page.
Hey this is a really nice site. http://www.sierranevadawild.gov/ This and Yosemite’s http://www.yosemitefun.com/ look to be really good, better than the official park sites.
Huh, I’ve backpacked in quite a few of these. Desolation, Emigrant (lots!), Yosemite, Ansel Adams, Dinkey Lakes (my first Calif. Backpacking experience), and Sequoia/Kings Canyon. I think I car-camped in Carson-Iceberg once. I should try Granite King, Molekumne, and investigate Carson-Iceberg some more – they’re certainly all relatively close.
http://www.sierranevadawild.gov/Sierra_Wilderness.htm
Here’s an interesting bear site by professionals trying to keep the tourists and campers from killing the bears by habituating them to humans and their food. You know, it just reminds me of why I like the backcountry of Emigrant so much – no bears; they’ve gone to Yosemite for the summer. http://www.sierrawildbear.gov/ NICE bear photo: http://www.sierrawildbear.gov/biology/index.htm
Backpacking. Sierra. Hot springs. Wow.! Beautiful http://www.yosemitefun.com/backpacking.htm#The%20John%20Muir%20Trail
This is interesting – the Nat’l Park Service report on incidents. Sounds like something the little details folks would like. Oh dear, there was a presumed fatality here in the Bay Area today. Sad. http://www.nps.gov/applications/morningreport/index.cfm Yikes, NPS shipped a loaded gun without know it? Oh dear!
5/30 report: Interesting info on the current attempts to summit Denali, or, specifically, the failures to do so. Yikes: A 33-year-old Utah man fell over 3,300 feet on a ski descent of Mt. McKinley late on the evening of Thursday, May 25th, but suffered only minor injuries in the fall. As of last Friday, there were 423 mountaineers attempting Mt. McKinley, with another 13 climbing Mt. Foraker. So far this year, 89 climbers have reached McKinley’s summit, with no recorded summits of Mt. Foraker.