Warm sweet and tender...
When I took this photo I forgot my mitchell reel and garcia rod sitting on the rock near by. After a while up the trail I realized I had forgoten the rig and dropped my backback of over 90 pounds and ran down the trail at about 7,500 elevation and ran in to a guy going down the trail with my rod and reel (Mitchell reel and garcia rod) I stopped the gentlemen and asked him if he had found a rod and reel on the trail and he said Yes he had and I asked him if it was a Garcia /Mitchell set up and he said yes , nice, was I relieved. No explaining to my Dad about the screw up and looseing his rod and reel..( never did catch a fish on this trip )
The sad truth is I ended up leaveing the rod and reel on the back of a pick up truck that transported us from the pick up to the point of origin. For some reason I left that set up in the back of that pick up. I watched as it drove off down the road. Only to find, our pick up truck had a flat tire . Luckily we had a portable air compressor that ran off the cig lighter that filled up the tirewe also discovered a full ice chest of cold imported beers in he back of the truck after a week in the wilderness. Oh my what a time was had by all in the rejoicing of good times had
expriencing mother earth..
Nothing like it exploring the unknown..