Into The Mountains

-Into The Mountains-
(This video has been in the works for over a year now from filming to the editing.)

Into The Mountains from Patrick Mullen on Vimeo.

Camping through all the season was a great experience always learning something new every trip or exploring the best things mountains have to offer and finding out its tough work to survive.
Last year decided to just get out and do some hiking / camping solo ended up going on 15 solo trips to new locations almost every weekend. These are some of the experiences that happened out camping in the mountains from moose at 4 a.m. to a lightning storm while camping at 11,000ft at Twin Crater Lakes.

Locations:
High Park Fire, Emmaline Lake, Twin Crater Lake, Island Lake, Timber Lake, Browns Lake, Roaring Creek, Mirror Lake, Blue Lake, Lake Agnus, Nokhu Crags, Mummy Range mts, Medicine Bow mts, Commanche Lake, Cirque Lake, Signal Mountain, Colorado, Wyoming

Gear/ Equipment
Hennessy Hammock Safari Zip / Expedition 30D Monsoon Rainfly
Gore Tex Rain Jacket / Pants / Military Bivy Cover
GoLite Shangri La3 Tent
Northface 20 degree Sleeping Bag
Big Agnes r. value 5.0 Sleeping Pad
MSR Denali Evo with 6″ Tails
Black Diamond Icon Headlamp

Music:
Led Zeppelin The Rain Song

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12/12/2012 4:14 A.M.

BlackLight Space

8 hours total time on this sketch.
Took a long time naming the stars and their symbols in the constellations, shading, and layering dots. This is a small fraction of the sky above. The Northstar (Polaris) can be found from the two stars on the bowl part of the Big Dipper (URSA MAJOR) and also Cassopia if you follow the middle star of the W. These two constellations are simple ways to find The Northstar.

Star map of the polaris and a few constellations and galaxies 8 hours of work from naming all the stars to shading.

Photographs in to art work.

Just picked up and started practicing how to draw photo realistic sketches. Been a good learning process and improvement is showing after this time…

Pittsburgh PA. Art Work MullenPhoto.Com


Long's Peak Art Work: MullenPhoto.Com

Nokhu Crags at 10,663ft. Lake Agnes in Colorado

Lake Agnes and the Nokhu Crags mountain Range in the background.


Hanging out above Lake Agnes 11,500ft. drank a beer and got safely back down to the trees before the lightning storm rolled in on the typical afternoon storm. The mountain range on the other side is the Nokhu Crags the highest peak is 12,485 ft.

Close call with a Moose. Camping Time Red Feathers Colorado

First thing after we park and start walking around we noticed a huge moose right with in 15 feet. It sounded like someone coughing or huffing so I looked over and saw what I thought was a head lamp and with the coughing but looked closer two eyes big moose......Wondering around scouting for our spot. So when we arrived there was a river close by so we explored around.

Crossing the river was pretty fun fallen trees every where.

Beer Time ! A few good beers are great but its a good habit to pack out your trash that you bring.

Cool plants every where

There were some Trout in the deeper pockets of water in the river

More river crossings and also the best place to fish. 2 foot fishing hole.

Spider webs every where had to pay attention

Hilleberg Tent 800$

Hennessy Hammock Expedition 2lbs. 150$

The trees and the clouds looked epik not to mentioned the stars at night looked awesome.

After the sunset the stars appeared after some clouds

 

Using a rock to cut a small branch for use as a fishing pole

Disclaimer: I don't just go around hacking off tree limbs just simply borrowing a piece of nature for survival skills.

 

Cool rock formations

Lost lake was pretty empty so we found another lake to go hike.

Creedmore lake was a nice lake to camp near.

Hiking with weight

The view facing north

The view from up top of Creedmore Lake

Very nice area

It was a nice lake to fish no bites for us but we saw a few people catch some Brown Trouts

Camping on a total slope is no problem unless ur gear starts tumbling down.

Hanging out amongst the trees

The view from another high point

Cool views

We ended up hiking pretty far in search of two other lakes ending us out by a river a few miles away from camp

Sunday morning was nice to have to sun out saw a Brown Trout swim right by almost got him no luck endless amounts of crawdads on the other side of the lake.