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Backpacking the Glacier Peak Wilderness – Spider Meadow, Buck Creek Pass Loop

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

Backpacking the Glacier Peak Wilderness - Spider Meadow, Buck Creek Pass Loop

Spending the eclipse on Cloudy Pass with my new best friends.

My annual backpacking trip came and went.  As always, I received far more than I deserved.  Amazing natural beauty, good food, personal challenges and good people.

How do you like to spend your time?

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them.  In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them. – Sir Edmund Hillary

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You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. – Paul Prudhomme

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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought. – John Quincy Adams

Backpacking the Glacier Peak Wilderness - Spider Meadow, Buck Creek Pass Loop Backpacking the Glacier Peak Wilderness - Spider Meadow, Buck Creek Pass Loop

For details on this trip and more information on the Sierra Club Outings, click here.

Most photos courtesy of Suzanne Diercks.