Oh geez, my bad TXBK, I thought I was answering a post to my trip out to GMNP. Didn't mean to speak for you on where yo took the pics :o
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Oh geez, my bad TXBK, I thought I was answering a post to my trip out to GMNP. Didn't mean to speak for you on where yo took the pics :o
No worries, Shorts. I figure that SilverBullet was talking about the first pic since it was taken not too far away from Orla, as the crow flies.
I plan to hike Guadalupe Peak (8,749') in May but to get ready I recently hiked Emory Peak (7,832') in Big Bend NP.
From the Basin, Emory Peak is a 10 mile out and back, the first 3.5 miles of which is the Pinnacle Trail. From the junction with the Emory Peak Trail it is another 1.5 miles to the top.
The Basin sits at 5,401', so the straight line elevation gain to Emory Peak is 2,431' not counting the ups and downs on the trail.
Excellent, I hope to get out to Big Bend this year. I haven't been to back to the Guadalupe Mountains, since my last trip in July. I have been working on the other side of the state, but haven't visited any parks out that way.
I did get my wife out a couple times last year, though. In October, we hiked ~18 miles around the LBJ National Grasslands. The day after Thanksgiving, we hiked Caprock Canyons State Park in the freezing rain. She tapped out due to a heel injury she had been nursing, but we did get a good 10 miles in. She got to experience the performance of the Arteryx, and finally understood the cost.
That's a beautiful hill. Very interesting that the area is encompassed by flatlands. That's not something I see around here in Washington.
I am not going to feel sorry for you since you have these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._in_Washington
Hiking in the North Cascades and around Rainier in Washington State are some of my favorite hikes in the US, specifically Cascade Pass in NCNP and the Summerland Trail to Panhandle Gap in MRNP.
Long time ago when I was a Boy Scout, we were hiking up in the Big Bend Chisos and some astronauts doing some survival/hiking training stopped to talked with us. They were wearing their orange "jumpsuits" with all the cool Nasa patches. They encouraged us to keep on scouting and become astronauts.
Yeah, it didn't happen I suck at math.
Here's a picture I took on Mt Baker a few weeks ago. I think I was standing around 7-8k feet.
http://i.imgur.com/97IuD74.png