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has been bugging me to take her backpacking, and I finally got around
to it. Mudgy picked the place, and it was the White Tanks. Good choice.
Lots of climbing (not so fun when wearing a 55lb backpack), and very
pretty. We hiked up Ford Canyon, and slept up on top of the mountain.
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Just starting the hike, near the Ford Canon trailhead.
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Me.
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Here
was our first problem. A bit hard to see in this picture and the next
(these things always are hard to see), but we came across this
rattlesnake. He was mad, and let us know about it, too.
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Silly sign. No ametures we.
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Part way up.
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Aw come-on Mudge! It can't be that wearying.
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Pretty flowers.
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I think Mudge took this. Not sure what it is.
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This
is why they call this place the "White Tanks". This is a tank, and it
is white (imaging that). Recent rains have left the tanks all full of
water (skanky water, to be sure).
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Another tank.
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Somewhere in Ford Canyon.
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I would never have guessed that spiders came in the purple variety.
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Here
is another of those problems. I packed neither fork nor spoon. We had
to eat our meals using strange and not very efficacious utensils.
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Our
campsite. I thought that the sand would be comfortable to sleep on.
Wrong. It was mor comfortable than a rock, however (yes, I'd slept on a
rock more than once before).
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Eating with a strange utensil.
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Sunset.
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More flowers.
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HI!
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Pretty scenery.
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Eating granola and blueberries (pretty yummy) with a knife. Wonder why she doesn't use a spoon?
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A few tanks.
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Here
is yet another problem. I was trying to crawl around this tank (the
rock was steep), and I fell in! This tank was much deeper than I
expected, and that water was COLD!
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On the way down, the next morning.
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Pretty bug.
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