Enchanted Valley Backpack

A 5 day trip to Enchanted Valley in the rain with James, Andrea and Mike.

051

001

The whole trail pretty much looked like this.

002
Fun suspension bridge

003
Fun suspension bridge

004

005
Enchanted Valley, or Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls.

006
Enchanted Valley, or Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls.

Enchanted Valley Chalet
Chalet

008

009

010
Don't wake me up!

011

012

013

014

015

016

017

018
Mural of Mt Anderson inside the chalet

019
One of the local natives, Mike.

Mike goofing off at Enchanted Valley
One of the local natives, Mike.

021
Enchanted Valley, or Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls.

022
Enchanted Valley, or Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls.

023
Enchanted Valley, or Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls.

024

025

026
One of the local natives, Mike.

027
One of the local natives, Mike.

028

029
Enchanted Valley, or Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls.

030

031

032
Chalet and first rays of sun in 3 days.

033
Nothing much to do in this rain but hang out in the tent.

034
Nothing much to do in this rain but hang out in the tent.

035
Enchanted Valley Chalet and our "Illegal" Camp spot. Notice everything in the world that we owned at the time drying on the fence post.

036
Can't get the $*@*!% stove to light. After 3 days of MREs we really wanted a hot meal. And I had some really bad taste in clothes back then. These were k-2 specials.

037
Drying out our stuff after 3 days of rain

038

039

040

041
Probably the largest rootball I've ever seen.

042

043

044
Even before thru hikers made it popular to wear tennis shoes while hiking, I was ahead of the times. Unfortunately I didn't realize cotton socks would still give me blisters.

045

046

047
Our 6 man tent and our equipment tent.

048
After a couple of days, James finally gets the #$%! stove to work and we get a hot meal.

049
After a couple of days, James finally gets the #$%! stove to work and we get a hot meal.

050
After a couple of days, James finally gets the #$%! stove to work and we get a hot meal.

051
After a couple of days, James finally gets the #$%! stove to work and we get a hot meal.

052
After a couple of days, James finally gets the #$%! stove to work and we get a hot meal.

053

054

055

056

057

058

059
It only weighs 20 pounds... really!

060
Bros

061

062

063

064

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Click here to Subscribe

Thanks for taking an interest in following me on my adventures. Enter your email address below and click the sign me up button. You should receive a confirmation email momentarily.