Completion of My Alpine Lakes Wilderness Mission
To begin with, I want to acknowledge that this is my first post to the blog in a long time. Several years ago, I made the decision that my time would be better spent writing trip reports on other forums such as wta.org or nwhikers.net . It is my goal to add posts to this blog for some of my favorite Alpine Lakes Wilderness trips, while they are still somewhat fresh in my memory. However, I don't have a particular timeline in mind for that effort. If you're interested, you can see a record of my lake-bagging and hikes on the Hike-O-Meter page on this site. The hike list also includes links to a photo album for each hike. Some, but not all, of the photo albums also have captions that mostly tell the story of the hike. Fair warning - the albums for multi-day backpacking trips often have many hundreds of photos, so you may want to grab a large bowl of popcorn before diving in. I regret to announce — this is The End With a nod to J.R.R. Tolkien, I am at the en...