After months of planning and many trips to REI, Veronica and Brett left San Diego on July 18 for 12 days of backcountry camping and hiking in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.
While I was paranoid about the rampant wildfires spreading throughout California and the devastating drought affecting much of the state, no fires were nearby and they always had fresh water available. They were offline while out in the wilderness, but touched base with us every third day when they got back to the car and moved to their next location.
Rather than share a tent, they each slept in their own bivvy (short for bivouac sack): a waterproof sack surrounding each sleeping bag with a bug net at the top. Depending upon the weather, they either slept under a tarp or under the stars.
One other thing that they had to take into consideration was bears and their uncanny ability to get into food containers. Brett carried all of their food in a special bear canister (seen here next to Veronica), which they restocked every three days. Not only did they never see a bear, they never saw any proof of bears.
Rather than attempting to retell Veronica’s stories, I’ll let you read them for yourself on her
blog.
Instead, I’ll just show you some of the amazing images that they captured during their big adventures.
It is notoriously difficult to book a camping spot in Yosemite, but they lucked out and secured a spot in Yosemite Valley, where they car camped for three nights with Siena, who had driven up from San Diego.
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