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Wind Rivers -- Junction Lake -- July 2006 TR
Who: Scott, LeRoy, Clint, Camron, Shad, Kevin & Janis, and myself.
Where: Wind River range, Bridger Wilderness, Junction Lake area
When: July 22nd - July 28th. A full week, 6 nights, 7 days :cool2:
Schedule:
- Saturday night- we drove to Pinedale WY to the Elkhart Park TH. We hiked in to Miller Lake in the dark.
Sunday- met up with my aunt and uncle - Janis & Kevin (Mcgillagorilla) at Middle Sweeney Lake. From there we hiked down into the Junction Lake valley to set up camp. Our desired spot was taken, only until monday though, so we set up camp just around the corner.
Monday- moved into our main camp when a group left. Kevin & Janis had to leave early. Scott (accadacca) hiked in and met us at our camp.
Tuesday- ran into some decent Macinaw trout at Junction Lake
Wednesday- Scott, Clint, and Shad hiked up to a couple of lakes, namely 1,000 Island Lake, and estimate catching @200 fish that day!
Thursday- headed back to Junction lake to catch some more big fish and take a swim
Friday- Hiked out. Clint, Shad, and I split off and went to Photographer's Point, @1.5 miles out of the way.
Summary: We saw a different group of people everyday. The funny thing was, we ALL thought this was our "secret" little camp spot. :lol8: Some people were actually pretty upset that we got to their spot before they did. Well, that's how it goes. They were all from Utah, and it was the 24th of July week. :ne_nau:
So, we hiked in about 8 miles to camp, and then about 2-3 miles a day for fishing. We ate delicious fish about every night, as you'll see from the pictures. We estimate that we caught @300 fish altogether that week. :nod: The fishing was great, even though the rivers mostly contained 10-12 inchers. It was a lot of fun.
Read the captions on the pictures for more description. :popcorn:
Milage/strange question...
Do you have any idea how fast you were going with your packs on, while you were hiking in? Did you happen to have a GPS that told you MPH? :ne_nau:
Re: Milage/strange question...
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Originally Posted by paraAdams
Do you have any idea how fast you were going with your packs on, while you were hiking in? Did you happen to have a GPS that told you MPH? :ne_nau:
We had at least 2 GPS' with us, but I'm not sure if anybody recorded the speed. We hiked about 4 miles in 2 hours, with maybe 5 short breaks.
Coming out, we went the long way to see Photographer's point, so @9.5 miles on the way out. We made that around 4 hours.