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More peak bagging for us, and I am really at heart more of a lake bagger sort of person. Peaks are nice, and can have great views, but it is also possible to fall off of peaks. Lakes, not so much. Unfortunately, lakes are in short supply in the desert, so ...
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| Backus Peak |
One of the local peaks we had a route for was Backus Peak. I think Bacchus Peak would be a better name. My reasoning is Bacchus was the god of wine, and too much wine can cause people to do foolish things such as climbing hideously steep sandy mountains. But we figured we had never been. We decided to invite our friend Brian whose trail name is "Nuts" along, as this would certainly fit.
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| After an hour of walking in the sand it is getting closer |
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More peaks to climb
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| And closer |
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| And closer |
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| The view from the top looking west |
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The view from the top looking east and down at Five Fingers
And it was a death march sort of day spent either in steep sand or in steep shale. The view was certainly nice, ok it was spectacular - Morris, Owen's Peak, and Jenkins Peak up close and beautiful. It really showed why the PCT curves around in this area as it does, but I decided not nice enough to ever justify another trip in this life time. And then it happened, Bob was reading the peak register and there was my name boldly emblazoned. I had been there in 1997. Well maybe I'll put this one on my list to do again in another 21 years.
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