Category Archives: Backpacking

Adventures in Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains

There is dispute in the internationally recognized Echelon system for rating beauty as to whether a four or five echelon rating scale is more appropriate.  However, there has largely been agreement that there is no need for a sixth echelon. Well that is because those who developed the echelon system had never visited Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains.

Now that’s a Sixth Echelon camp!IMG_0602

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Most of the hike in followed this meandering river upstream to Sandy Lake.
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That’s our peak, Haystack, in the distance!IMG_0599

Views into the Cirque en route to the TemplesIMG_0615

And the stunning Temple and East Temple peaks and icy lakesIMG_0604

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A quick map check as thunderstorms approachIMG_0639

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