So how many of those sites at the end of the trail are official designated sites?Unfortunately the forest service has proposed essentially ended camping out on the peninsula:
As there really isn’t anywhere you can be 1/2 mile from the lake.
I’m also not really sure of the jurisdictional aspect of this since I believe the pool area of the lake is ACoE, but there may be aspects of that I’m not aware of.
That’s not this weekend is it? (Not that next weekend is going to be any better…)
Please post pictures when you can...
Check out Rusted Moon Outfitters in Broadripple. That’s just an average, normal backpacking pack size, shouldn’t be hard to find, but they have excellent fitters which is key.
When I started backpacking, I used an 80s vintage external frame pack that i'd picked up for $5 at a rumage sale years before. I added a new waist belt, from Amazon, since all it had was a small webbing belt. After a few trips with that, it helped me zero in on what I really wanted in a pack. Now I mostly use my ULA Catalyst 75 L pack. It’s only 3lbs, and I can hike in the summer with 16lb base weight, or I can take it deer hunting in HNF stuffed full of cold weather clothes. Only change I’ve made is to take off one of the waist belt pouches and added a bigger one with a retention holster for my 9mm Shield inside it.
