Spring Snow Backpacking trip, Round Lake to Showers Lake, June 6, 2010

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These are two of the many videos I took of a grand snow shoe loop from Meyers to Showers Lake, from Showers Lake out of the Lake Tahoe Basin to Round Top Lake, then back into the Basin via Round Lake to exit the snow at Meyers, where we first started.

This was a delightful Spring Snow backpacking trip, full of fun navigation challenges, route finding, terrain reading, and other Spring Snow delights.

On the fourth day, as we were working our way from Meiss Meadow down to Round Lake, I heard a coyote coming through the underbrush, and even caught a glimpse of her before she heard or saw us.

I signaled for complete stop and silence, then pointed to my estimated point of emergence from the underbrush of the coyote, who soon popped through the spot I anticipated.

The poor coyote. Right in front of it were two frozen backpackers. The coyote knew we were not supposed to be there, but we would not move, and prove we were out of place, which frustrated and perplexed coyote.

So coyote started barking at us, and twisting her head as if looking at us from a slightly different angle would resolve the puzzle.

The poor girl was completely unnerved by our very unexpected presence.

Coyote began to carve a wide circle around us through the deep snow, barking and howling at this strange site of two humans deep in the snow protected mountains.

(Note: put together the next videos from Showers to Round Top and back to Round Lake...ASAP)

Priority Shift: As I am trying to get the many elements of the trail guide and forum together, the rest of the videos of this delightful Spring Snow trip in 2010 will not be completed until after much other work is done on the standard Summer trail guide.

 My goal was to provide basic four-season High Sierra backpacking information. I've now plenty of information up for the Winter, Spring, and Fall backpacker. Now I must complete the trail guide itself.