Frank Farmer's Photos

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Hi, welcome to my photo site! Most of my photos are from vacation, hiking and camping trips with friends and family. I tend to take a lot of pictures, when I'm out doing whatever. The intent is to immerse the viewer with a detailed feel for the experience and place. I hope you enjoy your visit! Please visit my other web pages:

Tiocampo's Eclectic Paradigm • Mountaineering Page • Photo Friends • Facebook

Best Regards, Frank (AKA Tiocampo) ffarmer@frankandtepo.com

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Family : 20 galleries with 1295 photos

20 galleries with 1295 photos

Updated: May 11, 2013 10:32pm PST

Vacation Trips : 31 galleries with 4703 photos

31 galleries with 4703 photos

Updated: Nov 04, 2012 6:56pm PST

Camping Trips : 32 galleries with 6401 photos

32 galleries with 6401 photos

Updated: Jul 30, 2011 4:30pm PST

Day Trips : 135 galleries with 14745 photos

135 galleries with 14745 photos

Updated: May 19, 2013 6:23pm PST

Evelyne Farmer's Travel Journal : 8 galleries with 430 photos

Evelyne Farmer's Travel Journal

8 galleries with 430 photos

Updated: Sep 12, 2009 5:01pm PST

Frank S. Farmer's Military Journal : 3 galleries with 58 photos

Frank S. Farmer's Military Journal

3 galleries with 58 photos

Updated: Sep 13, 2009 6:31pm PST

Special Events : 26 galleries with 2026 photos

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My new jeep.

Point Bonita, Golden Gate Bridge

Trip map. The distance hiked was about 32 miles, with total elevation gain and loss about 10,600 feet. The route we hiked is shown in blue. Routes we considered taking but didn't are shown in red.

This Trip Report covers a loop trip that Ron Karliner and I completed in the Mineral King region of Sequoia National Park, from September 15-19, 2002. It was a great trip! The weather was very dry, and there were no mosquitos to be found. Bears did not pay us any visits.

Our route began at the Mineral King trailhead, climbing steeply toward Sawtooth Pass. We gravitated into Monarch Creek Canyon, where we camped the first night. We tried to minimize our impact on the canyon, knowing that NPS prefers that hikers stay out of there. We definitely minimized our impact on the overcrowded Monarch Lake Campground!

The next morning, we continued the steep, messy climb to Sawtooth Pass, and proceeded east and down to Columbine Lake. It was remarkable to encounter the huge cairns on the trail to the lake, after stumbing up the confusing Sawtooth Pass "Trail."

Our second night's camp was in Lost Canyon. The next day, we stopped to look at a NPS helicopter take off near the Soda Creek Trail junction, before climbing north and west around a big ridge to Big Five Lakes, and on to the third night camp at Little Five Lakes.

The next morning, we climbed steeply over Black Rock Pass, pausing to take pictures and reflect on the view. We met an interesting solo hiker, and traded information about water availability and trail conditions. We hiked down to our fourth camp, near Pinto Lake. It was very confusing to find Pinto Lake, once we were close to it. We used Ron's digital camera to check an image and locate the lake exactly. (Note to self in 2002: I gotta get a GPS!).

We continued down Cliff Creek Canyon on our fifth and last day, to the junction with the Timber Gap Trail. We began the long climb to that Timber Gap, stopping to take in a hazy view of Tableland in the distance. After pausing at Timber Gap, we tightened our boots one last time, and proceeded down steeply to the trailhead and the end of another great trip.

We encountered a dead snake (striped racer?) in the early part of the hike.

This is where we hiked. We could show the exact location of the Enchanted Pools, but that would take all the fun out of it. If I were looking for the Enchanted Pools, I would check along the Twin Lakes Creek, just above and downstream of where it is joined by Umpa Lake Creek.

Grouse Ridge to Glacier Lake trail map

Chinese houses. Simply delightful.

Nice rock and tree arrangement.

Scarlet Pimpernel (exotic from Europe).

Salmonberry.

Sticky Bush Monkeyflower.

Paige picked out our route. It came out to about 14 miles, total. A nice walk in the park!

Frank's feet. The water felt very good!

Small snake. I told this snake to get moving, or it would be a snack for a bird. There were hawks, gulls, and crows swirling nearby.

HMV (His Master's Voice, the British version of RCA) is big-time record chain in the UK. I bought a bunch of CDs at HMVs in Guildford, Oxford, and Portsmouth. (Thanks to Will Murray for reminding me what HMV stands for.)

Trip map -- Daily route profiles are at the end of this gallery

Mike T. and Rich.

Steps near Officer's Club at Camp Howze

Nice view of Castle Peak.

Our hike route for today. We stopped for lunch near Round Lake. After that, we took a cross-country route around Long Lake, rejoining the trail north of Island Lake. We contemplated an ascent of Fall Creek Mountain, but decided to save that for another day. It was my first time hiking from this trailhead, and I was pretty impressed!

Bush poppy?

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