I just got back from my first solo backpacking trip. The mountains were magical but not enough to lift me from my funk.
Here’s a slideshow I made. It starts at Plumas-Eureka State Park and the nearby Johnsville Cemetery and meanders on up to Rock Lake and environs, where I camped. I put the thing together with software I learned about at a Knight Media training session. It’s called SoundSlides. Its being super-easy to use didn’t prevent me from spending a zillion hours assembling the thang. The hardest part was picking just the right music that reflected the mood of my journey. I must say I did a brilliant job.
If you have a way faster Internet connection than I, you can click the little box with arrows at the lower right corner of the screen to watch a full-size version, which is much prettier.
Hi, friends. Sorry I haven’t written for a long time. I’ve become increasingly aware of how boring this blog is.
However, newly returned this afternoon from a short backpacking trip to the Trinity Alps, I will succumb to the desire to show-and-tell. Actually, I don’t feel like writing so I’ll put this up in the form of a gallery with plain old captions. I’ve edited the photos down from 400-plus to 36 images.
As you probably remember: click on a thumbnail to see a medium-sized view. When the medium-sized view is visible, click on its white link below to see the big picture.
Note: Before we left for our trip, a ranger told me that the fires and air quality weren’t a major problem where we planned to visit. But by the time we arrived, the south road into the wilderness had been closed. We took a three-hour detour and dropped in from Callahan. You’ll see from the photos that there was a lot of haze but, except for some stretches when the wind changed and our eyes and throats burned, it wasn’t bad.
Another note: All the photos of me are thanks to Jill.
Next entry after this: three videos from the trip.
Okay, here ya go — pictures of Tangle Blue Lake and environs.
