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Ansel Adams Wilderness Trail Project: The Camps

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The project started here, at a base camp located at the Agnew Meadows Horse Camp, and the packers were first to arrive on Friday. Campy and Mike had trucks full of gear, which was quickly off-loaded for packing up to spike camp the next morning. Hikers left after a bacon and egg breakfast and a few hung around to watch the gear being laid out for the packers. The volunteer packers measured each pannier load with a scale which had to be within a pound or two for each side of the animal. We took the High Trail and arrived at spike just behind the packers, around 4 pm. The trail crew set up their tents and then helped setting up the kitchen and digging the latrine trench and enclosing it with screens. The packers returned to base and returned with more loads the following day. We're talking about the Antelope Valley Unit of the Backcountry Horsemen of California, for the most part. Our local packers - of the Eastern Sierra BCHC unit - checked up on us during the week and gave an assist in packing out.

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Img 01, Img 02 Dennis, Dick, Paul, and Charlie are organizing and packing loads for the trip. Img 03 Gus weighing his pack. Img 04 Gus, Paula, Rosalie, and the peaks are Ritter and Banner. Img 66 Spike camp is just east of the largest Badger Lake.
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Img 11 Part of the kitchen showing the prep table, stove, and buffet/pot drying table. Img 26 A cookbook page from Campy's vast recipe repertoire (grin). Img 35 David's tarptent. Screens in the background conceal the camp latrine. Img 41 Dave left out his great hard-hat. Img 34 In camp, a signal gives the status of latrine occupancy. Uh, right now it isn't occupied.
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Img 39 Indeed the latrine appears to be currently unoccupied. Img 58 Dairy and produce department - all panniers are bear-proof. Img 59 Refrigerated meat and deli cases. The blocks of ice lasted all week. Img 60 Grocery department.