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- Statistics:
- Date Hiked: August 13,
1999
- Miles Hiked: 10.0
- Elevation Gain: 3,000'
- Hiking Partner(s): Brendon Chaney, Casey
Freise, Jamie Mosbrucker, Mark Pazdernik
- Description:
- Casey and I had been planning this trip
for quite a while, and we feel that it turned out great. Two friends of ours
from North Dakota had planned a vacation out to Idaho to visit, so we thought it
would be fun to take them out backpacking. We did the
best we could in supplying them with the gear they needed and decided to make
this an overnight trip.
- Trout Lake and Big Fisher Lake are
located northwest of Bonners Ferry (ID) in the same area as Pyramid and Ball
Lakes. We decided to backpack 2 1/2 miles into Trout Lake the first
evening, make camp there, and then day hike to Big Fisher the next day.
Casey and Mark quickly had their fishing poles in the lake before they even took
their packs off, while the rest of us set up camp. We had some dinner and
then turned in for the night, or at least some of us did.
- At 4:00 in the morning we were all
pleasantly awaken by the sound of Casey herding cattle. He had previously
heard our pans clanking, and thought it might be a bear so he was attempting to
scare it away. After catching another hour of sleep, we all got up and
were notified by Brendon that the great grizzly that visited our camp was
actually just a bunch of packrats. Much to our surprise and entertainment,
Jamie admitted to hearing the "bears" shortly after the rest of us
went to bed. He said he spent most of the night lying awake trying to figure out what
was going on and whether or not anyone else was going to hear them.
- The next day we finished the hike into
Big Fisher Lake and then returned back to camp. Although Casey and Mark
did catch some fish, Casey had to "smoke" Mark's fish before
Mark could eat it. Mark was caught trying to hide a huge rock in Casey's
backpack, so Casey threw Mark's fish into the ashes of the smoldering
fire. Anyway, Mark ended up eating his fish and we all returned home.
- Maps:
- Click here to view a 2D map of
the area where this hike is located.
- Click here to view a
second 2D map of
the area where this hike is located.
- Photographs:
- Me at Trout Lake.
- Here
is a picture from our day hike. We are getting ready to drop down into Big
Fisher Lake.
- We didn't stick
around at Big Fisher Lake very long because the
mosquitoes were bad.
- Jamie
and Jim at Big Fisher Lake. The Broken Oar Bar in Mandan (ND) is
paying me royalties for posting this photo of me in one of their shirts.
- Views
from the top of an unnamed peak above Big Fisher Lake. I am fairly
certain that we were at 7,530'. Nice foreground.
- Here
are all the North Dakota natives. Jamie, Mark, Jim
, and Casey.
- We make it back in record
time due to the fact that Mark set the pace like that of a gazelle. I
think he was hungry.
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