Three Sister Loop - Sept. 1979

[Don Nelsen]

Did you see many other backpackers / hikers on this trip? Horsepackers?

I don't remember seeing anyone else at all on this trip but I may just not remember this far removed in time. I'm sure that there were darn few - if any! For sure, there were none once we left the trail north of Green Lakes and all the way back to the TH. However, Sept 21-24 was very late in the "normal" hiking season for that area.

As for my encountering Horsepackers on the trails: They are very rare in my experiences. I've seen them once in the Wallowas on a later trip, once on one of the trails down into the Grand Canyon, once in the Mt. Jefferson area and once in the Mt. Adams area and that's about it. I imagine in the high country feed for horses could be a problem as natural forage is pretty sparse the higher you go.

don

[Roy]

33 miles in 4 days?

These days it takes you one day to do that.

Ha! - Thanks Jerry, but not with a 50 lb. pack!

Don

We did carry some heavy packs back then. I also had a pair of Raichlie boots in the early eighties and always ended up in running shoes. Those boots were more miserable than the heavy packs.

What a joy it was to leave it all at camp and explore!

Thanks for the sharing this.

Tom