{"id":37,"date":"2010-10-12T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2010\/10\/backpacking-the-spanish-peaks-of-the-madison-range.html"},"modified":"2010-10-12T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T23:24:00","slug":"backpacking-spanish-peaks-of-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2010\/10\/backpacking-spanish-peaks-of-madison.html","title":{"rendered":"Backpacking the Spanish Peaks of the Madison Range"},"content":{"rendered":"

The crew I was part of in college refers to ourselves as Flavor Country and a small subset of this crew has been taking an annual backpacking trip since somewhere around 2002 or 2003.  I and my roomate (also a part of Flavor Country) have the fortune of living in a place where there is ample and awesome backpacking so a couple of the guys from the Midwest came out to visit last week and we hit the trail for four days and three nights.<\/p>\n

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There was some big ol’ glacial erratic along the trail.<\/i><\/div>\n
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We found ourselves way up in the high country singing “Misty Mountain Hop”.<\/i><\/div>\n
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Then it snowed.  Eric was so afraid he had to close his eyes.<\/i><\/div>\n
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Someone left a metal grill at the site so we steamed some beef sticks in a sardine can.<\/i><\/div>\n
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It was pretty much exquisitely beautiful. <\/i><\/div>\n
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Eric constructed the best firepit ever.  ‘Twas a shame to practice LNT and tear it down in the morning.<\/i><\/div>\n
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At trip’s end we had to fight Jax dog for the last tall boy of Old Swill.  <\/i><\/div>\n
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Backpacking the Spanish Peaks at EveryTrail<\/a>