14.5 miles of hiking • 3500' elevation gain •
Eric aka er0ck and I did a big off trail hike today.
Found both 3 walled slant to RJ cabins. Off trailed it a lot to get a connection to ROA.
Went up a bit to almost Yeon MT. area looking for the Mystery Trail, never saw it. Turned around and went towards the Horsetail Creek/Oneonta Creek ford area.
Broke out my machete and Eric used his mini trimmers and went to work on carving out a primitive EAST side 'schwack to avoid the cold Oneonta Creek ford.
Saw the 2nd bridge pretty fast but it took over an hour of hacking to go about .12 miles through tons of devils club and berry bushes not to mention all the blow down and huge logs.
Final part in todays mission was to find a junk camp I saw on a May 1st hike. Eric got to cleaning it up and dismantling right away and we packed out all the garbage except for some super old cast iron stove parts.
Awesome trip today Eric! :)
Special thanks to anonymous whose help was excellent in getting to these cabins. Don, was the lantern it? GPX and .tpo will be sent automatically to several guys, still reeling from and assessing today's adventure...
Knee - used ace bandage and hinged knee brace and knee was pretty good. Took 2 Aleve and 4 Pain RX during the course of the day as well.
Comments
Eric Peterson
July 23, 2011
Thanks Kyle, was a good time out there...
Kyle Meyer
July 22, 2011
Good on you both for packing out garbage and breaking down the junk camp. Sounds fun!