Awesome picture!

-- J.P.

Oh! Ghod! what a lovely view! A high mountain tarn! Reminds me of when I was SRT, in the Sierra Nevadas, we'd stop for a break in sign-reading or for lunch and a commo check and you'd see this wonderful vista you'd missed because you were looking for sign.... What State is this, please?

It's the Trinity Alps in Northern California, up by Weaverville. Absolutely fantastic backpacking.

Your SRT training sounds really neat.

I should have guessed NorCal...We trained up there quite a bit.

SRT was hard to deal with for a long time, you'd get all fired up and practically run your search area, hoping for a quick live find and a chopper-ride home.

And then you'd find the body, usually at the bottom of a scree-field, and call in.

When you heard the chopper you'd pop smoke and help the aircrew place the body in the stokes. and you'd ride back with some poor sod in a sack who'd made one too many bad choices.

Desert SRT was worse. I don't think we ever got one living person back. For a long time, I couldn't face mountains without death looking back at me.

Oh...my...God. I have to ask my Dad to take me on a trip like this. This is just an awesome picture.

It's an incredible place.

...I'm such a sloth. I can't go to places like this on my own. I need some one to make me go.

Someday the dam at the far end is going to break...

Maybe in a few thousand years or so. ;) That far end is a cliff of pretty much solid granite. The lake's exit stream forms a little waterfall over it and feeds a big swampy meadow some way below. Such a neat place.

Maybe it needs some help... *shifty eyes*

Sorry, my inner engineer sometimes gets out of control

Nice picture. I'd love to visit this place some time. *adds it to the (long) list of 'places to visit sometime'*