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Wallowa Wonderland
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Photos featured here were taken on an annual gathering of friends that began in 1976 and has brought the group together in the Wallowa Mountains every year since. That’s 32 years of photo albums, slides, super-eight silent movies and video with recorded sound. Viewing the archives of our high-lakes trips requires a trip through the history of photo and cinematic technology. Whether you want to drown a worm in the lake or scale the peaks and play on glaciers, the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area provides a place to satisfy your desires.Our group usually heads for lakes less known in the wilderness area, but occasionally we revisit the popular (and crowded) lakes basin as we did this year. The close proximity of mountains and lakes in the lakes basin makes for a variety of day hikes that fit a range of campers. This group ranged from leisure lakeside fishermen to high school cross country runners who scamper up ridges and peaks like mountain goats. Everybody knows food tastes better in the mountains. Nothing can start the day like a dark cup of campfire coffee with breakfast. Much of the day is spent eating or preparing those carefully planned dinners. Late afternoons the collapsible fishing rod gets assembled and a lavish layer of insect repellent gets applied before the hungry cloud of mosquitoes comes out of hiding and rises into the air like a bad dream. During evenings wild stories around the campfire about those unforgettable adventures of yesteryear are mixed with tomorrow’s plans to climb Eagle Cap or swim in the icy waters of Glacier Lake. By the way, any stories that don’t have pictures or movies to back them up are challenged like the story of the big one that got away. It’s OK to forget the salt and pepper. Just don’t leave your camera at home.
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