Every long weekend is great for backpacking and this three day off around Independence day wasn't different. Petra, Miro and I went to Trinity Alps. For me it was first backpack in that area and I was again nicely surprised how beautiful mountains around California are. It was really long drive, but it was worth it.
I had class till 9 pm on Thursday, so we left after 10 pm from Concord. We found one spot somewhere by the road around 2 am and had about 4 hours of sleep. In the morning we drove to the trail-head for Caribou lake. The last about 17 miles were on dirt road with a lots of stones so we drove really slowly - my car is not really 4 wheel drive :-)
The first day of our backpack we had to climb up about 9 miles from a valley to the Caribou lake. It was beautiful hike with great views, even to Mt. Shasta at one point. We found nice place for camping, made a dinner and I went to sleep quite early (I was still recovering after illness), and Petra and Miro were enjoying almost full moon evening with a lots of stars.
The second day we took just one backpack with food and climb slowly to the ridge above the lake and then later to one of the peaks on the ridge. We took it really slowly and enjoyed the beautiful views all around us!
On Sunday we hiked back to our car and drove back, as I mentioned the drive was long and with one stop for dinner we arrived home around 1 am.
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Prodlouzeny vikend je vzdy dobra prilezitost jit do prirody a tento vikend kolem dne nezavislosti nebyl odlisny. Petra, Miro a ja jsme se vydali do Trinity Alps. Pro me to byla prvni navsteva teto oblasti a opet jsem byla prijemne prekvapena jak nadherne hory jsou v Kalifornii. Cesta tam byla docela dlouha, ale stalo to za to!
Mela jsem ve ctvrtek skolu do 9 vecer a tak jsme odjizdeli po 10 vecer z Concordu. Kolem 2 rano jsme se ulozili nekde po ceste u silnice a zdrimli jsme si asi na 4 hodinky. Rano jsme pak dojeli k vychozimu bodu k jezeru Caribou. Poslednich 17 mil bylo po spatne ceste s mnoha kameny a tak jsme jeli hodne pomalu - moje auto preci jen neni do terenu :-)
Prvni den naseho vyslapu jsme se museli vyskrabat asi 14.5 km z udoli k jezeru Caribou. Byla to pekna tura s nadhernymi vyhledy, dokonce i na horu Shastu. Nasli jsme pekne misto na kempovani, udelali veceri a ja jsem sla spat docela brzo (stale jsem se jeste dostavala z nemoci), Petra a Miro si jeste uzivali temer uplnkoveho vecera s mnoha hvezdickami.
Druhy den jsem si vzali jen jeden batoh s jidlem a vyskrabali jsme se pomalu na hreben nad jezerem a pak pozdeji na jeden s vrcholku na hrebeni. Nikam jsme nespechali a uzivali si nadhernych vyhledu kolem nas!
V nedeli jsme se vratili k autu a jeli zpet, jak uz jsem se zminila, cesta byla dlouha a s jednou prestavkou na veceri jsme dorazili domu kolem 1 v noci.
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