WINTER CAMPING The Search for Solitude
BY DREW DODSON
Dan Noakes often drifts back to the moment that winter camping captured his heart. Noakes, a Donnelly resident, first forayed into winter camping last year as part of a 14-night, 110-mile solo ski traverse across the Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness. It was there, camped along a ridgeline overlooking a high alpine lake in the far eastern reaches of Valley County, that Noakes said he found paradise.
Dan Noakes’ hike across the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness last winter took him 110 miles from Johnson Creek east of McCall to Challis. PHOTOS COURTESY/DAN NOAKES BACKGROUND PHOTO BY DREW DODSON
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