Backcountry Camping, the Joys of Wildlife and Finding a Water Sources 📷

Couple pics here of my recent morning eating spot. Can't complain about this view. One meal, just eating some lasagne and a young big horn sheep comes walking up to, along side and right past us. I didn't get a picture of him unfortunately, as we were busy cooking, not expecting to see wildlife and this guy just wandered right on past us, just 25ft away. It was very cool.

One difficult part of this weekend out was actually finding water. This mountain normally has a big stream coming off it (which I've seen many times flowing well) but with our super dry summer here, there was no water in the basins, the streams or the usual areas at all.

We didn't find any water on the hike in or near camp the first night so the three us who were hiking together all split up in the morning to go scout out a possible water source, by seep, underground spring or even a crappy dirty pond, whatever we could find. I had no luck finding any the direction I went, but my buddy luckily found a small seep coming out of the rocks and it was just barely dripping a few drops a second coming out of a rock wall, which is normally quite a good waterfall.

So, thankfully, we had this tiny bit of seeping water over the rocks and we were able to collect enough water by very tiny pools that would slowly refill on the rocks below the dripping. We figured with another hot dry day, it might dry up completely, so filled up our packs for the day hike, and setup more containers to catch water for the day, while we were hiking to hopefully have enough then for the rest of the weekend.

This was the best spot for a tiny bit of water to collect from this seep. Turns out, it all worked perfectly and we had all the water we needed when we returned around 8 hours later after our hike. SWEET!

Thanks for sharing these little adventures with me, I'll continue to post photos from this trip soon. Please follow to not miss em and I'd love to hear your comments as well!