T3 Carter Moriah
27 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
There’s nothing like a wet, cold, challenging backpack trip to remind you comfortable your house is! A dozen brave Troop 3 backpackers hit the road early Friday morning to challenge, and conquer, the Carter / Moriah Range over a planned three day / two night trip that ended as a long two day / one night trip. We started in the rain and invested a lot of energy getting to the summit of Moriah in big wind and whipping rain. From there we proceeded to the Imp Shelter / Tent Site to endure what will go down in infamy as “The Care Bear Incident.” Our friendly caretaker did not want us to take the 20 person shelter [there were two guys there already] because he was expecting a full site and we had tents. He felt that if we took most of the shelter we would put anyone showing up late with no tent at an extreme disadvantage and possibly in his tent. Since we had tents he explained that etiquette called for us to use our tents and leave the shelter open for the less prepared. Several rounds of passive / aggressive jousting later we agreed to take three platforms and set up our tents in the rain. While several of our crew got really cold before a hot dinner one guy showed up and stayed in the shelter. That was it. No one else showed up.
In the morning our friendly caretaker, Matt the Care Bear, did not show his face. We packed up and headed out, with our wet tents, and our heads held high because we had “done the right thing,” but also having decided that we’d do all our hiking on Saturday and take our wet tents back to Manchester that night.
The day was awesome and partly sunny. We bagged all the Carters, dropped our packs at Zeta Pass and seven of us nailed Carter Dome at a feverish pace before shouldering our packs once again for a fast descent down 19 mile Brook to the drop car.
Great trip. Great learning experience. Komodo and the Ape are almost half way at 22 / 48 bagged!
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