Jill and I went on a super awesome backpack trip for the Fourth of Jill-y to Saddlebag Lake (more specifically Greenstone lake). To get there from the West Coast you drive through Yosemite, Tuolumne Meadows, and out the Tioga gate at the east side of the park. Then a couple of miles north on a dirt road. We parked at Saddlebag lake, elevation 10,000 feet. We then hiked around the west side for about 2 miles and set up camp in a wilderness playland.
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- The hike in
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- Also the hike in
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- Approaching our campsite
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- Bridge out!
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- Bridge gettin’ fixed
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- That should do it
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- Ruffage!
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- Happy Jill (with knife)
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- Stud
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- Dinner lakeside
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- Home
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- Ridiculous
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- Jill by Greenstone lake
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- Night (obviously)
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- Heart
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- Our campsite
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- The local scenery
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- More ridiculousness
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- On our day hike of the area
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- Who took this picture??
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- Egg
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- Some great wildflowers to be found
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- Next to our lunch spot
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- About as far as we got from camp. Lakes everywhere.
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- Snow, ice, water and dirt – everywhere.
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- On a short walk near our camp
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- This is what most of the snow looked like
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- Jill the super hero
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- Our rings
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- Our campsite and viewshed
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- Sunset on the eastern hills
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- Greenstone lake reflection
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- For Petey – 1
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- For Petey – 2
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- Green patches appearing before our eyes
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- The happy couple
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- On the start of the hike out
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- Looking back across Saddlebag lake towards our campsite on the hike out
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- Bushels of wild onions!
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- Jill chillin outside the shop where we took the car
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- What??
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- In awesome park waiting for the car to be fixed
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- Downtown Lee Vining
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- Our future home in Lee Vining
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- Paintbrush?
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- Uh pside down house from 1895 or so
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- The fix that got us home!
