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Wilderness Training Pack TripCoyote Meadows Horse Camp to ToeJam Lake, Emigrant Wilderness, CAJuly 27-30, 2003Joint training exercise wth the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit, the Mid-Valley Chapter of the Back Country Horsemen of Calif, and the SM

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BCHC member Bob Daniel (left) explains the portable scale to BAMRU member Will Hirst.

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Back Country Horsemen's member Bob Daniel guides his Missouri mules up the trail to ToeJam Lake July 27, 2003

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(L-R) Pat, Mike, Will Hirst (BAMRU), Tsvetie (BAMRU) and Chris Cooper are ready to help with a meal in the camp kitchen

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Colleen Combes on Sandy's mustang mare Sally, in Whitesides Meadow. The Three Chimineys peak is in background

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Chris is bundled up in her duster after an afternoon thunderstorm

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Chris cools her feet in Lake Leopold after a one mile hike from ToeJam Lake. Riders ain't used to using their own locomotion

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Campers put on their best faces while relaxing around the camp fire after riding out a thunder storm

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And Pat was busy identifying as many of the wild flowers as she could

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Heading back to Coyote Meadow Horse Camp and trail head

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MSAR members Pat Dallam and Mike Harper rest a moment in Horse and Cow pasture, July 27, 2003

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MSAR member Pat Dallam and Tawny pose next to the Coyote Meadows horse camp sign before starting out on the wilderness training pack trip July 27, 2003

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Pat and Mike in Cooper Meadow

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Pat watches the horses and mules graze in pastures sectioned off with electric fence

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Thanks to late rains, the spring flowers were in full bloom throughout our region of the Emigrant

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Purple pine cones were everywhere at Leopold Lake as were marmots

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Back Country Horsemen's member Sandy Newsome is ready to start out from Coyote Meadows Horse Camp, July 27, 2003

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BCHC member Sandy Newsome is smiling now, but wait until we are on the trail. Coyote Meadows Horse Camp, July 27, 2003

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A heck of a view of the west side of Spring Meadow from Wire Lakes

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Starvation Lake, Emigrant Wilderness