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| no partners | | Friend wanted to backpack to the river.
I wanted to go stare into Granite Rapid for the first time since I almost drowned in it back in 2016.
Permit was easy enough to get. One night at Granite, the next night at Monument.
Easy hike down, my friend was exhausted and passed out pretty quickly.
We ran into Rob aka Wilderness Vagabond down at Granite, funny because we also ran into him on Kendrick Peak a few months back. Small hiking world.
The next day we spent almost the whole day at the rapid basking in the sun, climbing and exploring the schist and granite pinnacles in the area.
And NPS river trip rolled up to do some work on the willows and tamarisk by the boaters camp, turns out I knew a couple of them so we went to say hi. Showed my friend their boats and got some photos with friends.
Friend napped again, I basked in the sun near the rapid reading a book. We moved our camp up to Monument Creek that afternoon. A small bird hung out and basically joined us in the tent. It must've been habituated since hatching. Sheesh.
Cold night at Monument. Salt seeps on the Tapeats were cool. Heard a rockfall down canyon, sounded like a car backfiring.
Hiked out at 5am on the last day so I could make it to work on time that afternoon.
Great hike. Felt empowered to stare into Granite again. Next time I'll see her from behind a set of oars. |
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