Sunday, August 9, 2009

Dougless Creek(platte river wilderness)








This is the first of several backpack trips. I lost these pictures, but finally found them on Emily's computer.
Isaac and I went backpacking the first week of July to Dougless Creek. The ride to the trailhead included 35 miles of windy dirt roads, which by the end made Isaac car sick. Luckily he lost his McDonalds kids meal just outside of the truck.
The trailhead was actually at 7,000 feet and in the afternoon made it very hot. We hiked through the sagebrush for 2 miles. Dougless creek itself has trout, but was running high from snowmelt. We caught several with a spinner, but I never even tried to flyfish.
We saw some bighorn sheep including a baby and found the largest mushroom ever.(Isaac thought it was a dinosaur egg).
We only camped one night, but it was enjoyable.