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#bw #bnw #monochrome #blackandwhite #monochromephotography #bnw_legit #bnwminimalmag #_bnwart_ #Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking #hikertrash #ultralightbackpacking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land (at Idaho)
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Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land (at Idaho)
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Grand Sawtooth Loop | 8/28/20 | 19 miles | Day 3
Waking up at camp around 7, I packed up and prepared breakfast. Another morning of cold soaked oatmeal with protein powder and instant coffee.
The morning hike started out fairly clear but I was struggling with getting going. The trail had stayed lower in elevation than I was hoping and I really just wanted to climb up into the mountains instead of skirting around the outer edges.
As mid morning came along, I descended down to the lake shore, where I made a light lunch, and decided to go for a swim in the lake. I made my way to one of the docks on the waters edge, and jumped in, swimming around for a few minutes. After drying off on the dock, I began the climb up and eventually started to make my way up into higher elevations.
On the climb up, I made a wrong turn and ended up off trail for a while, and had to bushwhack back to the trail before the final ascent to Hell Roaring Lake, where I made camp for the night.
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#Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking #hikertrash #ultralightbackpacking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land
(at Idaho)
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Grand Sawtooth Loop | 8/27/20 | 16 miles | Day 2
Packing up camp this morning, the weather was overcast but at least it wasn’t raining. The hike for day continues along the outer edge of the Sawtooths, staying lower in elevation than I was hoping but it was a gorgeous section of trail.
There were a few ups and downs for the day, but only one really big climb towards the end of my day, where I would then descend down to Redfish Lake.
Once I reached the junction down to the lake, I debated if I wanted to make a side trip down to the resort for some food but decided against it and continued on. Hiking up the ridge that followed the lake, I made camp for the evening and settled down for some rest.
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#Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking #hikertrash #ultralightbackpacking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land
(at Idaho)
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Grand Sawtooth Loop | 8/26/20 | 14 miles | Day 1
I woke up in Stanley and decided to get some breakfast from the Stanley Cafe before heading out to the trailhead. I had heard from numerous people that the bakery was amazing, and after a breakfast of a chocolate croissant and a breakfast sandwich(with a cowboy cookie saved for later), I am happy to say that it lived up to the hype. The chocolate croissant was the best I’ve ever had.
After that, I drive to the trailhead in Grandjean and started the hike. I decided to hike this loop clockwise. The first stretch brought be up Trail Creek and over a crest, where I hiked down towards Alpine Lake.
As the day progressed, a few rain showers quickly passed over but luckily they didn’t last too long. I made camp in a dispersal site slightly above a creek and got ready for the next full day of hiking.
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#Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking #hikertrash #ultralightbackpacking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land
(at Idaho)
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White Cloud Peaks Loop | 8/25/20 | 16.3 miles | Day 3
First thing in the morning, I had a climb up and over the next pass as I made my way down to the Chamberlain Lake Basin.
On the way down to the lakes, I’m fairly certain I saw a wolf track, and when I got to Lower Chamberlain Lake, there were mountain goats drinking on the far end of the lake.
The rest of the hike had me climb up two more passes, following a couple lake drainages until I made it back to my car, where I drove in to Stanley to prepare for my hike in the Sawtooth Mountains.
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#Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking #hikertrash #ultralightbackpacking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land
(at Idaho)
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White Cloud Peaks Loop | 8/25/20 | 16.3 miles | Day 3
First thing in the morning, I had a climb up and over the next pass as I made my way down to the Chamberlain Lake Basin.
On the way down to the lakes, I’m fairly certain I saw a wolf track, and when I got to Lower Chamberlain Lake, there were mountain goats drinking on the far end of the lake.
The rest of the hike had me climb up two more passes, following a couple lake drainages until I made it back to my car, where I drove in to Stanley to prepare for my hike in the Sawtooth Mountains.
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#Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking #hikertrash #ultralightbackpacking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land
(at Idaho)
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White Cloud Peaks Loop | 8/24/20 | 13.3 miles | Day 2
The next morning was hazy, and visibility wasn’t that great as I packed up camp.
Climbing up to the top of Patterson Peak, I began the next stretch of the hike; it was a seven mile off trail section. Going up and over the granite peak meant I had to scramble up the top and slide down the other side on loose talus towards the next lake basin. This was a fairly tiring section of the trail. While navigating this section, I got off trail and had to go back up hill, climbing up a rock face to get back on track.
After the off trail section, the rest of the day was on trail, through some gorgeous lakes and creeks. Eventually I stopped in a little meadow that had a ton of elk tracks in it, where I made camp for the night.
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#Idaho #WhiteClouds #StanleyIdaho #UL #ultralight #ulbackpacking #backpacking #hiking
Shoshone-Bannock Ancestral Land (at Idaho)
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White Cloud Peaks Loop | 8/23/20 | 2.4 Miles | Day 1
I left Portland fairly early Sunday morning, only stopping for gas and a few short breaks until I got to Stanley Idaho, where I got some dinner and then drove off to the trailhead at 4th of July Lake. Arriving at 7:30, I made sure I had everything for the next two days of hiking and set off, reaching an unnamed lake after a quick 2.4 miles.
Setting up camp, I prepared for the next day, where I would start the off trail section of this loop first thing the next morning.
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#earthfocus #pnwonderland #Upperleftusa #visualscollective #ultralightbackpacking #lifeofadventure #livefolk #ourplanetdaily #stayandwander #wildernessculture #adventureisoutthere #pnw #adventuretillwedie #Idaho #Roamtheplanet #visualsofearth #exploretocreate #folkscenery #ulbackpacking #stanleyidaho #backpacking #theNWadventure #ultralight #welivetoexplore #ulbackpacking #whitecloudmountains #hiking #mountains #hikertrash #idahoexplored
@idahoexplored @visitidaho @idahodaily @idaho @idaholivin (at Idaho)
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“You are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as say, trees, clouds, the shape of fire, the arrangement of stars, the formation of a galaxy. You are all just like that. There’s nothing wrong with you at all… except you have in you something that thinks there’s something wrong with you… but there’s nothing wrong with that either because that’s part of the flow.” - Alan Watts
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Sometimes we all need a reminder ☝️Nothing like a massive alpine setting to remind us always and again how we’re all simultaneously tiny and impermanent and massively beautiful.
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We’re still here Idaho, soaking up as much of your serenity and beauty as we can before we start the journey back to Denver for @outdoorretailer later this month and then to NorCal for @theoutbound Pursuit Series in Bear Valley. Anyone else going to either of these events?
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#thevanproject #visitidaho #stanleyidaho #stanleylake #sawtoothmountains #sawtoothwilderness #wildernessnation #wilderness_culture #mountains #mountainviews #mountainrange #hikeidaho #idahodaily #idahophotographer (at Stanley, Idaho)
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HALP creatives!!! I’ve been struggling something fierce on the creative inspiration front the last few weeks.
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Sometimes what I write doesn’t feel insightful or deep enough to do our situation or Matt’s beautiful photo justice. Sometimes I just can’t get any words to flow. When this has happened before I turn to nature but that hasn’t seemed to snap me out of it. I know some of you have experienced a version of this before… is there anything specific you do to help get yourself out of a creative funk?!
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Right now I’m trying the ‘hot spring method’…
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#thevanproject #visitidaho #hotsprings #mountainviews #sawtoothmountains #stanleyidaho #idahodaily (at Stanley, Idaho)
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