Words and pictures featuring Missouri
Loading up with water at the end of the Devil’s Backbone Trail – Gone are the days when I carry loads of water. The Sawyer Squeeze filter is so quick and easy to use, often I only have the one-and-a-half pints that my water bottle holds, filtering water as I find it. 2 pictures
Gear change – new backpack. Zpacks Arc Haul. 3
Lunch on the trail – Ramen Noodles. 3 pictures
Another empty trailhead – Here I am parked up, ready to start a three-day hike around the Devil’s Backbone Wilderness
January 2020, Three Days At Devil’s Backbone Wilderness – I visited old haunts and hiked the last of my un-trod trails in this wilderness. Journal: 18 48
Piney Creek Wilderness – January 2020 – A three day, two night, relaxing stay by the lakeside in Piney Creek Wilderness. Journal: 13 54
That’s Another Trip Completed. 2 pictures
Stops on the way – This downed tree offered a good place to catch my breath, have a drink, and take a selfie. 4
Cat Briar Meadows – Cat briars are taking over this area, and climbing the trees as well. I suspect the only thing keeping the trail open here is the horses. 2 pictures
Time to have breakfast, then pack up and go. One-minute read, 3 pictures
Frost melting in the early morning sunshine.
Leaves.
Sunrise on Day Three.
One more Piney Creek Panorama for luck – I’m not sure that I’ll ever tire of this view, though maybe I do need to stop taking pictures of it. Each time I look the play of the light is different. 2 pictures
Good morning! To get up or not to get up? Now that’s a question when it is cold out.
Day Three – view from my hammock.
Contemplating – nothing of great import, and I don’t think I wrote more than half a dozen words. 2
Camped by Table Rock Lake – The astute will notice that this is not my regular camping spot by the lake. The reason is quite simple; some expletive deleted hunter decided that a good place to leave the carcass of a deer they’d dressed would be right by the fire ring of my usual camping spot. One-minute read, 5 pictures
Early morning sunshine. 2 pictures
Decay – Leaves, shells and a stick covered with frost, and some monofilament fishing line leading to an unseen dead bird in the water.
Sunlight brushing the tops of the hills – the start of Day Two at Piney Creek Wilderness.
Frosty Morning – The predicted overnight temperatures were 30°F. It dropped to 21°F. Fortunately, I’d anticipated this and I was nice and warm in my hammock.
Winter twilight on the lake.
Sunset at Piney Creek Wilderness.