Scanned some more of the pictures from the trip. I am going to have to go back and rescan a couple of them as the scans turned out badly (these are, mostly, the ones that turned out okay). That meter issue really was dogging me as quite a few were badly overexposed and I have to see if I can clean them up. *sigh*. I can’t wait to get this new camera cleaned up and the prism replaced.
The next two pictures brings us up to the furthest point that we hiked. We had planned the trip so that we could hike to either Stickpile hill (~8 miles) or Devil’s alley (~12 miles). We had stopped at stickpile hill to rest for about 15 minutes and try to fill our water bottles. As it turns out the park service doesn’t ‘turn on’ the pumps until the weekend after we were there. ‘turning on the pumps’ involved reattaching the handles. As it turns out a single very strong guy or better yet two (or three) guys can operate the pump by pulling up on the top hard to pump it. Field and I managed to operate the pump with some effort (and thankfully had a large pot we could fill as a water bottle is a small target when you have to put it on the ground to fill it).
After resting up we got back on the trail as we talked ourselves in to trying to head out to Devil’s Alley despite a host of aches and pains (field’s hips were killing him from a bad pack waist strap and my feet were none to good). We ended up going about a mile and a half before we gave up and headed back to Stickpile Hill. We rested up for about 20 minutes before we headed back and I took these couple of pictures near where we stopped. The moon had just started to rise over the nearby hills.
Zuiko 85mm f/2
Zuiko 50mm f/1.4
We got back to Stickpile Hill and setup our campsite for the night. Afterward we headed to the river (about 100yds away). This is when tragedy struck and Field lost his wedding ring in to the river. To jump ahead the story has a happy ending as we found it in the morning (after 2hrs of looking that evening, a bit after it was dark and then again in the morning). After setting up camping I wandered around a bit and took some pictures of the flowers nearby and also a few campsite pictures.
Trout lillies
Sigma 24mm f/2.8
Sigma 24mm f/2.8
Not really a trout lilly
Zuiko 50mm f/1.4
