T&A's Emigrant Wilderness Backpacking Trip
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I take you along for the ride on a backpacking trip I did with my wife Alison in the Emigrant Wilderness in California. I love doing active things and backpacking in the Great Outdoors is one of the things I like to do. Backpacking is great exercise and it's a way to decompress from our overly busy and internet connected lives. Everything gets very simple when you're backpacking. You hike, you eat, you pee, you poo, you set up camp, maybe you do some swimming or fishing in a lake, river or creek and then you repeat the next day. I find it very relaxing even though it can be very physically hard at times. It's a nice retreat that's good for your body, mind and soul.
Alison and I usually choose to backpack after the trail quota season is over with which is usually in mid September. We like backpacking in the off-season for two reasons. #1, there's way less people to contend with. #2, there's no bugs that are biting you and making you miserable.
The Emigrant Wilderness area is beautiful and fairly vast so it's an area I plan on exploring more in the future.
I hope you enjoy it and it inspires you to go out on your own backpacking adventure.
I used to start my hiking/ camping trips from Kennedy meadows. I love this area. Thanks for sharing. Emigrant lake was a big success for fishing. Planning on a trip there next summer.
That was our first time backpacking in that area. We're definitely going back.
We are headed there this weekend. Never been there at all but was thinking to try and get to Crabtree trial head. Do you know anything about that spot. We are just doing a day hike for now till we figure out the area, and any insight would be helpful.
Kennedy Meadows proper is nice, but the trail out of there and up is not. There are better routes into the Emigrant.
Beautiful country. Name the dome 'Alison Dome' no doubt she worked hard to get there. That belongs to her. :-} Enjoyed the video. I need to get back out there, been awhile. Our back yard is Yosemite and Kings Canyon. Thanks Timmy!
Alison Dome. I like it. Glad you enjoyed the video. You have a nice backyard.
Beautiful country, thanks very much for sharing!
It is amazing country. We're glad you like it and you're very welcome.
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Yeah, Miami is very flat.
great video! more of these!
Glad you like it. Maybe we will make more videos like this.
Awesome backpacking trip
Thanks. We're glad you liked it.
Tim, love you dude! Thanks for the education. Hope I can pay you back someday!! I fix all my coworkers trucks/cars in the middle of god damn no where cause we're all overlanding/biologists and you helped me conquer the fears.
You're very welcome. Great to hear we helped you out and it's cool you're paying it forward working on all your coworkers rigs. Hopefully they are paying attention while you're turning wrenches to learn something from you.
WOW very interesting super kool ,1st class great info.,,, AAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++ again great video I liked it a lot ,keep up the great work.
Thanks John. I'm glad you enjoyed our adventure.
Tim, you’re awesome dude. You inspire me to do things like this! Unfortunately I live in Florida and miss the west coast!
Thanks Mike. Yeah, Florida would be hard for me to live in. I love the mountains. You got to try backpacking out. It's such a cool and peaceful experience. You'll love it!
@@TimmyTheToolman yeah I’m in the military so no choice. Trying to get stationed out in Washington. I miss the evergreens and mountains. Thanks for everything man. Love your work.
@@MikeMacDeezy Yeah, hopefully you'll make it back to Washington. Great to hear you like our work.
Awesome German brown trout!
Now I'm confused. I thought they were Brook trout.
Tim, you are not only a Toyota expert but trout expert as well! Seem like the brooks have darker upper body with swirly line on the body. The ground are lighter in color and have dots all over the body.
@@alsaysamone4148 I just looked up pics of brook and brown trout and the fish I was catching, other than the 2 that were clearly rainbow trout, look more like Brook than Browns.
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Nice trip TnA! My wife and I have been toying with this same idea since the fires have torched our favorite spots, maybe just 3 nights though. One tip for your tackle box, barbless hooks (or just file them off), it makes catch and release easier and more fish friendly. Did you see any crawdads in immigrant lake? With a quick boil, you can throw them tails in those MREs and increase the yum factor at least one star. As for the stream water, have you tried the LifeStraw? Just fill and go, no pumping necessary. Next hiking tool, drone.
Keep living your best life!
Filing off the barbs is a good idea. No crawdads that I could see. I wonder if they can survive in that cold of water. I'll have to check into that LifeStraw.
Looks like a brook trout, Timmy! Nice catch!
Yeah, they were all Brook Trout except for the couple Rainbows I also caught. It was an awesome day of fishing.
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Defiantly like this video !!
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Thanks William. Good to hear.
Wow Timmy great video… did not know you guys enjoy the same passion as me love overnight hiking trip… you guys have a great spirit and vibes… I’m in Australia no much high mountains here but still some nice tracks on the alpine area down on south east of Australia, check The Overland Track in Tasmania its great!!! All the best mate, thanks for share your knowledges and leisure experiences….
Glad you enjoyed the video. I've never been to Australia but it's on my list of places to travel to. I'd like to spend at least a month there when I go.
Awesome video! I definitely need to join you on one of those trips next year!
Yeah Dude, you would enjoy it.
Awesome, looks like you guys had a pretty successful day fishing! You guys should check out one of Steve's "Firebox Stove" videos. He does catch and cook camping videos, and he makes mouthwatering fish.
That day of fishing at Emigrant Lake was probably my best day fishing at any lake. I caught 9 that day, but I could have caught more if I really wanted to and they were all decent size. I think I will check out his videos. Thanks for the suggestion.
Damn, looks like we were at the wrong spot, no wonder i didn't have luck.
It's Timmy's Secret Fishing Spot.
Cool, what’s the name of the trail app you used? Guya? I’m outfitting my 2000 taco for these type of adventures. Just ordered Quiet Kat electric bike too. Looking forward to seeing as many national parks as I can! Let me know the app. Thanks 🙏
The app is Gaia: www.gaiagps.com/
fortunately the genuine wilderness is not accessible by bicycle or even, the true deep wilderness, by horse. The true wilderness defends itself effectively. That's what makes it wilderness. And anyways, in federally designated wilderness areas, which means virtually all the high Sierra, for instance, motorized vehicles are not allowed. Of course, you can run them on Forest Service roads, which will beat them to pieces in rapid order. A nice thought.
Hows the Brodozer? Will there be a vid on it soon
Brodozer is good. We have some videos on it but no real exciting off-roading videos with it yet.
Your original planned route was a major butt-kicker. Much smarter to hang out and explore than try to rack up the milegage, kick your own butt and see nothing but trail dust. The trail down Buck Lakes is obvious. The hike from Huckleberry up to Emigrant Meadow Lake is a long haul and the trail from the Emigrant inlet to Emigrant Meadow Lake is sketchy. Great terrain, but Kennedy Meadow is the least friendly trailhead into the Emigrant. Try Gianelli Cabin or Crabtree next time.
Thanks for the suggestion of where to enter Emigrant. I'm going to check it out.
You'll be glad. Gianelli Cabin accesses only a few high lakes, but three jewels among them. From Crabtree you can continue through to Deer Lake and beyond or drop south at the first junction, about a mile from the trailhead, the cut-off to Pine Valley, and continue east from there. The lower third of the Emigrant is all cross country and challenging terrain. There are over 40 campable lakes in the Emigrant, nearly all keepers (I've spent nights at 41), and the deeper into the wilderness you go the deeper it gets. Several of the choicest lakes are small, out of the way. (Fraser Lakes up on the ridge above the south shore of Emigrant, for instance. Approach them up the groove that starts east of the outlet. Estella Lake is another -- it's name isn't even on the topo.) The territory along the Yosemite border and over it is major good mountaineering, challenging cross-country. Remember to learn the needed skills, practice them, be safe. People involved in search-and-rescue say that the common denominator in serious wilderness accidents is people over-estimating their capacities and under-estimating the challenges of the terrain. Solo is exponentially riskier, solo cross-country still more. Happy trails and even happier off-trails.
@@jimpowell6789 Thanks for sharing all this information with me Jim. I appreciate it! You have definitely thoroughly explored the Emigrant Wilderness. I'd like to explore it more myself. I haven't done much off trail exploration, but I'd like to. I'm not an expert on Orienteering but with all the electronic gadgets like my smart phone and my Garmin inReach, I would feel more confident navigating off trail. Happy Trails to you too. I'll be retiring soon and will have much more time for exploration in the mountains. Take care!
@@TimmyTheToolman There's a hundred days of exploring to do in the Emigrant without going off-trail, and doing it is the way to learn how to do it. Crosscountry is something to work your way into slow and careful. Get the PAPER USGS 7.5 minute topo(s) for where you're hiking and a compass and start learning to use them. Learning to read a topo takes time and patience, but it's self-explanatory once you see how it works, and it's indispensable if you want to go off-trail. Find a local high point where you can see a lot of terrain, sit down, orient your map with the compass and then start looking around and fitting what you see to what's on the map.
I would NEVER trust an electronic gadget as a substitute. For all the obvious reasons. One year we ran into a guy at a trail junction between West Fork Cherry Creek and Wood Lake. He didn't know where he was and asked us. He was using a GPS. It turned out he had hiked six miles in a circle. He'd taken a wrong turn at the junction between Rosasco and Pingree, which is easy to do since there is no real trail there, just two routes crossing in the middle of acres of bare granite slick rock. But with a compass and a topo, and paying the kind of attention they exact, he wouldn't have made his wrong turn. Trusting his GPS he might have spent the rest of the day going in circles. And of course, if your gadget fritzes, or you drop it on that hard Sierra granite, or the battery fails ... and you're depending on it, ... you're screwed. Tom Harrison's Emigrant Wilderness map is real good for an overview, but nothing beats the 7.5 minute USGS topos for detail.
@jimpowell6789 Yeah, I never 100% rely on an electronic device. I always have a regular map with me.