This is Brother Dillman. I am very excited for the upcoming high adventure trip. I have camped in the Wind River Range five times for about one week at a time. Three of the trips were camping at the headwaters of the Green River. As a youth, our young men's group had a great time hiking, swimming briefly in frigid glacier fed lakes and fishing. The views at the Green River Lakes are the most impressive landscapes I have ever seen. The picture I have shown below is Squaretop Mountain. I met some climbers that climbed up the face of the mountain, about 2000 vertical feet, over the course of two days, sleeping on the wall overnight.
I also led two backpacking trips in in the New Fork Lakes area which is just south of the Green River Lakes. I will show more pictures and discuss these trips in later posts. I can say from experience that a good plan and good gear are essential to having a good successful trip in these mountains.
Essential GearBackpack:
Obviously for multiple day trips into the wilderness you need a backpack. An acceptable backpack must have a frame, internal or external, and a good padded waist band. Unlike school bags, which do not work well for long backpacking trips, real backpacks are carried on the hips. If you try to carry 30-50 pounds for 4-8 hours a day on your shoulders only, you will be incredibly sore, to the point of being debilitated. If a backpack is carried on the hips only mild soreness will be experienced. So make sure the backpack you bring has a good padded waist band. Internal frame backpacks are a little more comfortable than external frame backpacks. The advantage of external frame style packs is the ease of strapping sleeping bags, fishing poles, canteens, and other gear to the frame. The external frame makes this a little easier that the fixed loops and pockets of the internal frame packs. So either style will work fine it just comes down to your personal preference. The following backpacks are good examples of external and internal frame packs:
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