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Finally made it to Woodridge, IL yesterday and uploaded the photos to flickr today. Here is the link to some selected photos. Wrote some comments describing them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25552148@N02/9676398490/in/set-72157635387294300/
But the best way to get an orientation would be to open the Google earth with the following kml file enclosed here. Two days of messages were missing which caused severe agony to the family. For next adventure (I promise it wont be more than 5 or 6 days next year) I will check up and may find an alternative.
I have a kml file showing the spot2 messages I sent which had gaps for two days starting from Aug 23 to 25 when no msgs I sent were received by anyone on my email list. This caused some agony to the family and I was briefly on missing persons list on the WP Hostel notice board for a few hours!
I missed Doug both at the Portal store and Hostel on Aug 29th and would like to thank him profusely for allowing me to keep the food resupply bag at the hostel till my friend Dave picked it up on 23rd and brought it to me at Kearsarge first lake on Aug 25. We stayed at the hostel on Aug 29 and left early next day.
Thanks to Doug, Laura and Richard for indirectly influencing me for the once in a life time adventure for which I planned and prepared for more than a year!
With lots of gratitude!
Krishna
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Magnificent. Wonderful journey. Great pictures.
Congratulations!
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Great job!!!!! I loved your pictures.
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Wonderful pictures, and a grand adventure! Congratulations, Krishna!!
Much love,
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Congratulations! regarding SPOT...there apparently was a universal outage involving SPOT customers during that time frame. We did not get messages from our party then either.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. John Muir
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Very nice! Brings back fond memories...
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Nice work. Love the pictures.
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Ditto on the bringing back fond memories.
You really look like you had a fantastic time. Glad you enjoyed it!
I got nothing from SPOT on the 24th also.
Last edited by Richard P.; 09/06/13 12:25 PM. Reason: Oh, forgot to mention... really nice photo set!
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I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Krishna on the Wood's Creek descent and at the suspension bridge crossing. So glad to see this TR and to be able to offer my congrats. I summitted and came out the day before, and I know I left some nasty weather behind me. Thanks for the opportunity to make you memorable acquaintance
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Awesome TR & pics! Thanks for sharing...
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Gorgeous pics - thanks for taking the time to share them.
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Laura, Richard and all:
Thanks for your comments! Yes, after coming back, its just sleeping, eating and sleeping and a strange lethargy which makes me still dream of fantastic lakes, and distant snow clad mountains and I sub consciously look for camping sites in my dreams! This lazy hazy euphoria, though I enjoy it, I should shake it off and get back to my normalcy!
Again thanks for the kind words!
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Salty:
I met two people along with Aarwin at the bearbox after crossing the Woods creek bridge! One is wearing a mountain hardware tee and seemed to be in no great hurry to start the hike up the Rae lakes canyon. The other a wiry guy - it must be you - wanted to have head start. After you, I also started and that being a long day camped about one mile below Baxter pass trail jn., after the cattle gate, before the stream crossing, at a packer camp site where I camped last year. You looked at me and did not talk! Its great meeting you after conversing so many time on this chat!
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I just now saw your pictures, Krishna... they're so beautiful!! I'll echo the comments that they brought back happy memories; I just never get tired of this trail. I'm envious that you were able to stay in the Muir Pass Hut; I've always wanted to but it just never worked out... next time!  Thanks for sharing! Rosie
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike
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This lazy hazy euphoria, though I enjoy it, I should shake it off and get back to my normalcy!
Krishna: Never, ever, EVER let that happen. Hold onto that feeling with every ounce of your being. "I have a covenant with mountains." - Andrea Mead Lawrence -L
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I'll second the Moose: its why I came back by train.
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Hi Krishna, My wife, son and I had the pleasure of meeting you at the end of your epic trip on August 29. It was above Outpost camp and we were just coming down from a Whitney dayhike. I had twisted my ankle and needed to keep moving (we were also "smelling the barn") so we didn't visit with you as much as we would have liked. Loved the story and the pictures...congratulations! We hope to be able to do what you did in the near future. Don, Diane, Chase https://www.dropbox.com/s/8h648nmsf92msas/IMG_2132.JPG
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This lazy hazy euphoria, though I enjoy it, I should shake it off and get back to my normalcy! Krishna: Never, ever, EVER let that happen. Hold onto that feeling with every ounce of your being. "I have a covenant with mountains." - Andrea Mead Lawrence -L Krishna, I agree with Laura - don't ever forget the feeling here is another quote from the mountaineering literature - some of the titles I love all by themselves, and Shipton is one of my favorite authors: The are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain page 454
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Yes, I do remember you three! While coming down to Outpost camp, you saw how tired I was and advised why dont you camp there for the night? I said something about my friend Vikas waiting with the rental car! But the real truth was I kept on hearing the tinkling of ice in a glass of orange juice that I am going to get at the Portal store with Doug sympathetically listening to my triumph! Thanks for remembering! Like Reinhold Metzger told me near Wallace Ck in 2010 that who ever meets him will do the JMT soon! Very Prophetic  So look for your TR in this chat room!
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Yes, whatever I do including those painful pushups (looks like I did hurt my rib when I slipped coming down Vidette), my mind does slip back to that quietude of the mountains and relish those moments! You are all so lucky living right there! I walk and suddenly some flash of color from a group of lazy drooping flowers (fall arrived this week in Chicago) takes me back into Sierras! Thanks Laura, Salty and other dreamers!
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