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Late night bike ride 3:00A.M. enjoying life and the nice weather
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3:00A.M. night bike
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Hiking Mt Elbert 14440 feet the highest of the fourteeners in Colorado
The Storm
This storm rolled in from the west with high winds and blowing snow location was near Sleeping Elephant
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
Afternoon storms in the mountains
These mountains are out in Fair Play Colorado Watching the afternoon storm clouds.
Solo adventure
Solo Adventure to the summit. Mt. Crosier 9,280 ft. 8 miles roundtrip. 10 f Degrees Wind 15-35 mph Decided to camp on top of a mountain ended up finding a spot with a rock wall to block most of the wind that did not stop all night. Tied the rain fly to two different logs to help retain the fly from flying away and using trekking poles to help keep the fly stable. Also collected two flat rocks to block the wind from the open sides of the hammock. All in all it was a great experience. Every time I go outside I learn a small detail I could make better next time. Thats what survival is about making the right decisions and the ability to withstand what nature throws in your path.
Deep powder/ windy weather/ winter camping
Fresh Tracks trekking through the woods
Trekking through the real deep snow I've wanted to find and test out the MSR Denalis proved to float better with the 6" inch tails. 3'-4' of powder was around this weekend. It was a first for that much snow winter camping. Photo Props: Lane
This was our base camp for the night our front yard was a perfect place to snowboard on. Next time....
This weekend made it up to the Snowy Range Mountains to get some ledgit winter camping under the belt. The Hennessy Hammock proved to be a great shelter the bigger rain fly is key to being able to have some living room area under windy conditions. Ended up hiking around 3 miles roundtrip near the top we walked off the trail to find fresh new snow to camp near. The mornings sunrise was a great view from the mountain we were on facing east.
Lane's setup Alps Mountaineering tent
Lane and I made a very nice snow wall all around the fire. Even with the high walls the smoke would get bad when fire needed more wood. It takes a lot of energy moving around on a mountain and when things go wrong it gets frustrating but the reward always out balances everything and it seems to be a test from mother nature.
Hennessy Hammock Safari Zip 2013
Morning sunshine in the Hennessy Hammock woke me up so I climbed out to get some photographs. Burying the side of the rain fly into the snow proved to be a great wind shelter wall to keep the wind away
We camped on a epic place to snowboard on. Next time I will have my snowboard Good times
Lane descending down into the valley about 30 seconds later the snow almost gave out from under his feet. This happened a few other times so we decided to stay of flat ground when we were exploring without the heavy back packs.
We both had some new snow shoes to try out and this weekend was a ledgit place to test them out.
Hennessy Hammock Safari zip
Signal Mountain Trail Roundtrip: 12.0 miles
Total elev. chg.: 3,104′
High elevation: 11,200′
Rating: difficult
TH open year round
The lower portion of this trail follows the pleasant banks of Pennock Creek through shady forest at the bottom of a deep valley, while the upper portion tops out on the alpine tundra on the flank of Signal Mountain.
Thank you Hennessy Hammock. Stoked for the Safari Zip Defiantly like the bigger rainfly and also there is more room to move around. Spent the night warm in the 20's Good solo 5 mile roundtrip hike out to signal mountain
Trekking poles doubled as a way to create more room under the rainfly. Cooking was easy and the hammock provided a nice wind sheld
Found a nice spot to hang out with a good morning hike up to the sunrise.
Hiking in the snow and wind = fun
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Kahtoola Micro Spikes
Kahtoola Micro Spikes worked well climbing around the water wall would suggest cramp ons if it was anything more difficult.