Fish Creek

Another scan . . . the result of more organizing.

Fish Creek flows through what is termed on the map Fish Valley—a very steep valley, if you ask me. We had arrived there via horseback to spend the last night of our first horsepacking trip adjacent to the creek after an interminable descent from Grassy Lake. Large sections of the trail consisted of steps cut out of the rock, and Pilgrim (my horse) saw the steps as a chance to practice his hopping-down-steps-like-a-mountain-goat technique.

We finally reached the valley floor, camping underneath a grove of red firs. I took this photo with my Minolta 7000i mounted on a tripod. Interestingly enough, the tripod broke right afterwards—but it was our last night, anyway.

Photo: Fish Creek—Sierra Nevada, 2001