Quote from: Anne Blake on October 09, 2017, 04:01:43 PM
Michelle,
The last time that I was camping in the Lassen area it was a four day backpacking event for four of us. I remember my pack was in the forty to fifty pound range......no filet mignon or Chardonnay but every bite that we ate tasted all the better after hauling it in. Though, at my age, a motor home does sound good! Great photos by the way.
Oh dear, that sounds ever so cumbersome... [emoji6]
I've done backpacking a long time ago, and it was fun. Alas, now I seem to be more sensitive to cold and have grown accustomed to my creature comforts.
I still enjoyed the time we spent there.
I did one really fun little thing. I still packed a daypack, with some emergency basics for trail use, and my FT-60 handheld radio. That little thing worked remarkably well.
Near the Bumpass Hell Trailhead, I managed to connect to W6CX on 2 meters, the repeater system on top of Mount Diablo 181 miles south of me. Then, through the repeater, I connected to a small plane about 100 miles south of me and at the same altitude. The airborne ham and I switched to simplex (direct communications without a repeater), and we had a mountaintop to aircraft conversation using a 4 watt handheld radio with 19" whip antenna at my end!
That was a remarkable, if highly nerdy experience. My companion thought it was pretty funny, particularly that I was so happy about it! Nerds... [emoji6]
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