Gospel Hump part B

Gospel Hump part B

I completed another hiking video.  This is part B of the Gospel Hump Wilderness, one of the sections I hiked as part of my Idaho Centennial Trail experience.   in Part A which was titled Buffalo Hump, I hiked with my son Daniel in from the eastern side of the wilderness to Buffalo Hump.   in Part B, my oldest son John and  I hike in from the western side and go almost all the way across the wilderness and back.   from August of 2009   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoOnOAm_Tu4

Gospel Hump Wilderness

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Gospel Hump Wilderness

I hiked the ICT West Alternate route, part of which passes to the north side of the Gospel Hump Wilderness.   through the previous experience of my friend Jerry Finnegan (ICT Class of 2009) I learned about the *horrible* condition of the trail from Sourdough Lookout east to Five Mile Pond.   I made the decision to go THROUGH the Gospel Hump rather than around it.   I wound up crossing the Gospel Hump twice.   I came in from the east, from Orogrande Summit on one hike with one of my sons, then came in from the west from Square Mountain Lookout and went across the wilderness to connect, with another one of my sons.   in this way, I made a connecting trail between Rocky Bluff Campground all the way over to Five Mile Pond.

This illustrates a point I would like to make to prospective ICT hikers.   especially when dealing with the trail up north (north of the Salmon River).   it's okay to give yourself permission to deviate from the *official* trail.   There were several places that I chose to re-route, for various reasons.   Water and Safety were usually high on the priority list.  

see the video below 

Buffalo Hump Gospel Hump Wilderness

Gospel Hump Wilderness

near the end of a hike in the Gospel Hump Wilderness in August of 2009
with my oldest son John.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B51rG6FwOi2nMUxMOGU0SVJoX00/edit

Kinney Point

another attempted hiking trip with the llamas near Kinney Point above Hell's Canyon.

this time we experienced 9 inches of snow.

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Upper Indian Creek

more llama hiking with my friend Darwin.   this trail is about 5000 feet above the place where we started on the Deep Creek trail in Hell's Canyon.  

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