Backpacking - Indian Heaven - August 20-22, 2007

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Our three day trip to Indian Heaven started out a bit wet. Okay, a lot wet. Fortunately, we had a lot of plastic with us and we tried to keep everything as dry as possible. Arrived at our destination late afternoon and quickly set up tents and shelter. It was too wet for a fire, so we changed into dry clothing, cooked dinner, and then climbed into our tents for an early night. At least we were warm and dry inside!

The next morning we used noon as a go/no go decision whether we should stay or cut our trip short. Thankfully, the sun was out and dried out the clothing and other wet stuff. We were really glad we stayed as the rest of the trip was great.

  • Indian Heaven: First day - preparing to hit the trail!
  • Indian Heaven: It was a little wet the first day...
  • Indian Heaven: Karen enjoying the mist on her face
  • Indian Heaven: We're still semi dry!
  • Indian Heaven: Rock Lake in the fog
  • Indian Heaven: Are we having fun yet?
  • Indian Heaven: Setting up camp and some shelter
  • Indian Heaven: The next morning - drippy, but not raining...
  • Indian Heaven: It rained a little that first night
  • Indian Heaven: Wasn't too sure how waterproof the REI Roadster was
  • Indian Heaven: The Alps 2 man tent worked very well
  • Indian Heaven: Wood ducks looking for a handout
  • Indian Heaven: Bear Lake early in the morning with low clouds
  • Indian Heaven: Bear Lake early in the morning with low clouds
  • Indian Heaven: Bear Lake early in the morning with low clouds
  • Indian Heaven: Swapped out canister, thought it was completely empty, but it wasn't...
  • Indian Heaven: Just waiting for that water to boil
  • Indian Heaven: Let's try it again...
  • Indian Heaven: Still waiting for a goodie
  • Indian Heaven: Ah! Lovely, hot mocha drink...
  • Indian Heaven: Blue sky starting to show up
  • Indian Heaven: Pretty trees
  • Indian Heaven: Kitchen
  • Indian Heaven: Time to start drying out everything
  • Indian Heaven: Started out drying clothing on the rocks
  • Indian Heaven: We were so glad we brought a large piece of plastic
  • Indian Heaven: Decided to move the tents out too, and make sure everything was dry.
  • Indian Heaven: Lunchtime...
  • Indian Heaven: Yum! Top Ramon for lunch!
  • Indian Heaven: Betsy's home away from home
  • Indian Heaven: What a cute tent!
  • Indian Heaven: There were these huge, amazing toadstools
  • Indian Heaven
  • Indian Heaven
  • Indian Heaven: Not sure what this was, but it was pretty cool...
  • Indian Heaven: Just a nice little hole in the tree
  • Indian Heaven: The trail leading down to Elk Lake from Bear Lake
  • Indian Heaven: Elk Lake
  • Indian Heaven: Elk Lake
  • Indian Heaven: Elk Lake
  • Indian Heaven :Elk Lake
  • Indian Heaven: Elk Lake
  • Indian Heaven: Elk Lake campsite.  The only one at this lake.
  • Indian Heaven: Time for a few games of Squeal!
  • Indian Heaven: Preparing for a campfire.  Fritos corn chips and Blue Jeans cloth worked very well as fire starters.
  • Indian Heaven: Ignition...
  • Indian Heaven: Ah, nothing like a campfire and a bottle of wine...
  • Indian Heaven: Woke up to beautiful sunny skies
  • Indian Heaven: Snug as a bug in a rug...
  • Indian Heaven: Karen and Vel enjoying their morning mocha brews
  • Indian Heaven: Drying out the plastic
  • Indian Heaven: Testing the water temperature
  • Indian Heaven: We had moved our tents out from under the trees due to heavy drips overnight.
  • Indian Heaven: Packed up and ready to head back to civilization
  • Indian Heaven: The huckleberries were in abundance and were incredibly good.
  • Indian Heaven: Final group photo
  • Indian Heaven: Stopped at one of the lakes on the return trip.
  • Indian Heaven: Can't wait to go again!!
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