ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM: Blog: July 2019

Monday, July 22, 2019

Weekly Post: High and Wild: Three Years of Wandering in the Wind Rivers (#1-100)

Continued... Wind Rivers #1-100

High and Wild: Three Years of Wandering in the Wind Rivers

by Robert Glenn Ketchum

After receiving my MFA from CalArts, I was invited by Bill Lund, Sharon Disney’s husband, to come stay at the families' Diamond-D Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. Bill thought I might like to photograph in the nearby Wind River Mountains, which I did, backpacking through them extensively over the next three summers. Welcome to a world of big granite walls and huge alpine lakes!
~Robert Glenn Ketchum

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Monday, July 22, 2019

High and Wild: Three Years of Wandering in the Wind Rivers, #100:

Wind River, #100: Vicki Golden and I succeed in our off-trail traverse between the Titcomb Lakes Basin and Wall Lake, and set up a great camp at the far end of Wall Lake, a place we know from a previous camping trip. The hike was very leisurely, and not very difficult, so after a good meal and some sleep, we arise early to another cool day with non-threatening weather passing over us. The last time we camped here, we explored the far end of the basin, back into the Pole Creek headwaters, so I suggest that today we go to other end of the lake, where we will overlook the Cook Lakes, and have a broad view, west and south. As we have also camped at the Cook Lakes previously, I want to study the topo maps and the terrain to see if there is some other place we can explore within a reasonable hiking distance. It is a BEAUTIFUL day with a light breeze, so our morning hike is another gift of late summer. When we near the outlet end of Wall, I lead a rising traverse of the dome that slopes above us from the trail, and after about an hour of gradual climbing through meadows and granite terraces, Vicki and I emerge on a bald rise surrounded by flowers, and offering an expansive 360˙ view. Obviously, this is our lunch spot. We eat while perusing our maps, and from our elevation, we can see that south of us, as Pole Creek and the Cook Lakes descend, there is a summit called Mt. Baldy that rises. More of interest to us, Baldy has a huge basin on this side that is filled with lakes. We decide that will be our destination tomorrow, so we finish lunch and start back to camp. Before we descend to the lake trail, I make this 2-image shot of the entire Wall Lake Basin, and as I/we have never returned, it is a great parting gift to me and my library. This is a high, wild world I got to enjoy for an extended period.

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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Weekly Post, ARCTIC: At the Cutting Edge of Climate Change (#1-100)

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

ARCTIC: At the Cutting Edge of Climate Change, #100:
ARCTIC, #100: Sitting in one place for several days because “Itasca” is ice-bound makes everyone (especially Bill Simon) a little stir-crazy. With the long daylight hours making time seem to go by even more slowly, there is a lot of napping and taking saunas among the guests. There is also a fair amount of alcohol consumption. John Bockstoce is SO particular about his beverage of choice, he had several cases shipped aboard, not leaving it to Bill to supply him. Now, in our lethargy of ice, he is consuming his precious rum in the morning coffee. Then, about midday, wearing only Bermuda shorts and a bathrobe, he grabs a long metal deck pole, announces he is going for a walk, steps over the lowest deck rail onto the ice, and he is off. That, in turn, sets off a frenzy. I follow him onto the ice to take pictures. Then the female staff appears in bikinis, and two of the men have a snowboard and a long rope. We are on a HUGE flow, so the guys take turns pulling each other on the snowboard, so they can say they rode at the top of the world (almost). John is wandering. I am looking for polar bears!