This was my first solo into the wilderness.  I picked a location where I was pretty isolated, but within a reasonable distance of hiking out, should I need to.  I hired a packer to haul myself and my gear into the area, having never seen it before.  This also gave me a positive return date, and someone actually coming back to get me.  If I should get into trouble, at least someone would know, and have a start location to begin searching for me...

A nice little meadow where I set up camp.     

Edison Lake    

The indispensable coffee can:  cook kit, water dipper, hole digger, etc.  

A fishing set-up made from the items in the survival kit.  

A real survival kit...  Just kidding, of course.  Sorta....

The packer who took me in...  and came back to get me.  (I paid him a lot.)  

The yellow horse is the one I rode.  A real bastard, he liked to leap over stuff rather than step.  If I couldn't ride, he would have dumped me more than once.  Tough, though...  We went places I never thought horses could go, and he hung right in there.

Me taking a lunch break out of the wind... I'm off to the left, against that log.   

A couple of views of one of the rivers... rough country.  

It was a cold, gray day, with rain and strong winds.

Bill