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  1. 3 minutes ago, JasonG said:

    Cool area!  No wonder it is popular.  I should have gone in twenty years ago, but I was too busy chasing hardman dreams on the bigger peaks north.  All I found was a thin yellow pad.

    Yes the Alpine Lakes is perfect for the elderly.  Glad I didn’t do all this stuff earlier because I’m really enjoying doing it for the first time now.

  2. 1 hour ago, JasonG said:

    Oh I'd like to do that!  Never been in there and it has long been on the list.  Still though, planning on the shorter traditional version, if only for the car shuttle logistics.  But the Dingford end is cool !!

    I went to one end the previous weekend, and the other side this weekend.  there are a lot of people doing that traverse!  I ran into a few.  I would have just gone for it if I had one extra day...but I kinda of like the idea of coming from Dingford and adding in HInman for a longer trip (along with Iron Cap, etc) along the way. Would be less traffic for the first part of it for sure.

  3. I must admit I’m feeling a little guilty for not posting any trip reports this year. While I have been getting out, it’s all just been hikes with my dog and summits haven’t been my focus. I’m just trying to get to all the places wanted to go but haven’t for some reason.  This place I haven’t because the parking lot is usually full with a 1/4 mile of cars along the road.  But this weekend there were just a few cars and it was a beautiful weekend. Next year I do plan on the traverse up here, but an extended on from Dingford.   I’m sure many of you can guess the location this was taken from.

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  4. What are you guys using?   Today I just decided to cut over to CalTopo from GaiaGPS.    I've been wanting to get off GaiaGPS for a long while, ever since it was absorbed into the Outside.  I've loved being able to keep sort of a journal of geo located photos of my adventures over years, matched up with pretty good maps.  Of course loved it when it was free and you could add the photos and sync them to the desktop/web for free.    Since then I've continued to use it till I tried CalTopo and instantly liked the available maps better. I'm less worried about my track as I rarely use that feature. 

    I only wish there was a way to bulk export all my photos from Gaia so I could bring them into CalTopo with the geo data. 

    If anyone has found the best way to do this, let me know.  

  5. 14 hours ago, Michael Telstad said:

    I could actually really use these. Left about four racks of nuts in AK last spring (TR coming eventually) and am extremely nut poor. 

    Is $120 too much of a low ball?

    No man they are yours. I’ll dm you.

  6. I'm selling a Garmin Enduro 2 GPS watch.   It is functionally in great condition, works perfectly. This the Garmin watch that is designed around battery life.  If you hate charging a watch, but still want GPS functionality....and you don't like to pay full price for crap, then this is the watch for you.  It also has solar charging.   I got so sick of charging the Apple Watch I had every day that I paid a lot of money for this one brand new, and I quickly became a believer.  Only one better than this is the new Enduro 3 that just came out.

    I won't go into all the features this watch has, because you can read about it here:

    https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/854515

     

    I was charging this one like once a month normally.   Maybe twice if I did some longer activities, hikes, etc where I was doing GPS tracking.  I never had this watch ever come close to dying on me during an activity. Check the specs in the link above.

     

    The bezel on this Enduro 2 has some cosmetic scratches.  The actual watch face has none.  This occurred on one of the scrambles I did with the watch, but it doesn't impact functionality at all.  If anything it makes the watch look cooler, but I'll leave that for you to decide.  

    I used the nylon strap for a band, so that part is used.  It does have the rubber wrist bands in the box, it is totally unused.  You can also buy a nylon band if you want a fresh one.

    Comes in the original box and with a charging cable. 

     

    $300 OBO.  Check around, good price. 
     

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  7. Ha for me I ended up with a back issue related to my collarbone smash that also brought never ending migraines. Super fun. So I only did a few modest hikes and scrambles.  But any day in the alpine is a good one, and grateful to have gotten out when I did. This past weekend spent a night out with Kiba next to the highest pond up here: IMG_6145.jpeg.64e2adfda33dd941a16b9e4b54a1cda6.jpeg

    popular place but managed to avoid most of the people. Sure was smoky. Ran into a guy who turned around at the Hannigan trailhead as people coming out reported a brush fire past the pass back there.

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