And if it's 10.2 via the Mt Ojibway trail, it's 11.9 via the (westerner) Daisy Farm trail. (The map I can see right now is truncated, so I'm piggybacking off Ingo's calculation.)

I'll chip in that I've found MSR to have customer service that's almost too good. When my micro rocket suffered from my over-enthusiastic tightening of the valve that controls the rate of fuel flow, rather than ditching it, I sent it in for repair---and received, post-haste, a brand new micro rocket...

I think you'd be very happy with trips based on either of the E side loops already suggested! Here are about 4 more cents, in the form of purely subjective reports, offered in the spirit of helping you gauge the range of responses people have to different options you're considering: On the Lane Cove...

On the hypothesis that Mrs hooky isn't totally up for overnighting in the woods (a condition she would share with Mr torpified) but might be up for rides on dinky boats: your MC-CH itinerary is consistent with her taking the VII with you to MC, then carrying on to RH and hanging out, commodiously sh...

Because I'm very bad at staying warm, I've tried sleeping bag liners. But I couldn't figure out how to operate them. (As a rotisserie sleeper, I always wound up twisting them into a swivet with me trapped at the center.) I think a high quality 25* bag would normally do just fine even for me mid-June...

I'm ashamed to say that I build my backpacking menus around instant coffee, poptarts, and ramen. I'm not ashamed to own up to starting each dinner with a cup of instant soup -- there's especially good miso soups you can often find in the supermarket. They're not high in calories, but they help with ...

I'm also guessing that you'll find that your background and experience leaves you in more than adequate walking shape for an IR backpack. Even if you haven't got the latitude for a trial overnight, you can prepare for the backpacking element of the trip by dayhiking with your intended backpacks, inc...

I've overlapped with this crew's IR iteration for each of the last two years, and it seems like they've had a superior time!

No relevant experiences to report, but I'm rooting for you, chief!

one of caltopo's base layers is a weekly high resolution satellite image. I've used the feature obsessively to try to gauge snow cover on routes I wanted to hike. It didn't occur to me that leaves would show up too! The most recent image of IR was occluded by cloud cover. This one, from a week ago, ...

Since things seem slow now that the Park has closed for the season-- Due to a profound oddity in our terms of employment, Mr t and I are allowed to do our jobs remotely this year. We are set up in a cabin in a redwood grove in a community called "Skylonda," which (as its name suggests) may or may no...

I love seeing father-daughter teams in the wilderness. I don't think I'd be doing this if my own dad hadn't shared his love of the outdoors when I was too little to appreciate that, technically, I wasn't cut out to be a mountain man.

Un-unsuccess! What a great trip and report! (Also: trail wine and communication with the outside world weeks into a wilderness trip?? ---I'd say Tim was amply rewarded for sharing his shelter.)

Thanks for reporting back! I'm with your wife on the question of which parts of backpacking are the hardest. Some trips I have a morning mantra as I squirm back in to my sodden walking clothes: "Wool insulates even when wet. Wool insulates even when wet...."

Thanks for the pictures! I can almost smell the moose . . . .