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Photo: Trinity Alps Wilderness, Calif.
Backpacking Trip, June 1-6, 2005
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Camped near a lake that was still frozen over (and covered with winter snow) -- had lots of snow and solitude during this trip (And freezing temperatures at night.)

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Saw this young male (a yearling) every day while camped at the lake. We got to be pretty good friends. In this photo he's foraging near snowmelt runoff -- which was where I got my drinking water at this campsite.
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Photo - Trinity Alps Wilderness
Backpacking Trip - June 1-6, 2005
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Camped at this remote, off-trail
lake for three days. Had only
birds and chipmunks for
companions. It was late summer,
but a few winter snowdrifts
remained.

Photo: Sunrise at Mirror Lake,
Aug. 27, 2004

For Additional Trinity Alps Photos see:
TRINITY ALPS

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That's Emerald Lake down below.
Strewn about, rusting machinery
from the lake's early mining years.
Remains of a Pelton water
wheel, winch and the like.

Photo: Aug. 26, 2004

For Additional Trinity Alps Photos see:
TRINITY ALPS

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A Roosevelt Elk stretches --- stretches --- to crop the roses in the backyard of a vacant farm along Highway 101 in far Northern California.

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Photo: June 28, 2004
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Cross Creek belongs to the wind and rain, to the sun and the seasons .... to time.
-----Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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I camped here for several days during a recent backpacking trip --- had total solitude except for the deer. They were numerous and friendly. The mosquitoes were also numerous only not so friendly. (g)....(Which is why my sleeping bag is covered by netting --- a bug bivy it's called.)

Photo --- Trinity Alp Wilderness, June 10, 2003

For Additional Trinity Alps Photos see:
TRINITY ALPS

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Photo --- Trinity Alps Wilderness, May 2002 (It was almost dusk when this photo was taken. The flash fired but it wasn't quite as dark as the photo makes it look.)

For Additional Trinity Alps Photos see:
TRINITY ALPS
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"Currie Cottage" in the Ghost Town of Old Helena.

The "Currie Cottage" was built sometime in the late 1800s (?) by Algernon and Rebecca Currie. It's located just a short distance (northwest) from the Schlomer's Feed Stables ... another of the old buidlings.

Rebecca, Algernon and their daughter, Mary Ellen (who died at a young age) all are buried nearby. (Just across the North Fork from the old town site..)

For more information and additional photo:
OLD HELENA


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