Here is what I saw when I woke up this morning.
The water in the background is College Lake in the Kaiser Wilderness in Sierra National Forest. The closest pack is mine, the next one is my brother’s, and I can’t remember if my brother was still in the blue sleeping bag when I took the picture.
Yesterday, my brother, my dad, and I hiked up to the top of Kaiser Peak, elevation 10,320 feet (about 3,145 meters) above sea level. Then we came back down about 800 feet (about 244 meters) into the College Lake basin and spent the night. This morning we hiked out.
It would have been a much better trip if I had felt better and been in better shape—three weeks after the bar exam, I am trying to pull myself together—but usually, after a trip to such a great place, memory of the irritants fades with time and only the scenery and the terrain persist.
If I have time tomorrow, I will probably post more pictures.
Just in case you didn’t catch it, I posted my pictures in a slide show. It’s a couple/few posts down on my blog. I also have my Cayucos pics up as well.
Very beautiful. It looks so pristine.