"What a joy it is to pitch a tent, our home for a night or as long as we please. The very uncertainty and the possibility of choice amid new and strange surroundings makes it a pleasure in itself, a real adventure at the close of the day . . . That decided, there is nothing to do but listen to the sounds of the night birds, talk over the adventures of the day, and rest."
Sigurd F. Olson
This past weekend I went backpacking for two nights in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness. Trekking across snowbanks, losing the trail once or twice, fording streams roaring with snowmelt, lying down and photographing meadows of wildflowers, meditating to the melody of hermit thrushes, and camping by a mountain lake with no one else around were highlights of the trip!
Photo: My tent on Rainbow Lake, Mt. Zirkel Wilderness, CO, June 20, 2015
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