Oldest Photos

These are among the earliest photographs we have from the Kegger Backpack — most from the 1980s and early 1990s, when cameras were film, prints were rare, and nobody was thinking about archiving. Dates and years are uncertain on many. If you can identify anyone or add a date, please write the webmaster.

1987 Barbie Sykes, 1987. Maybe the oldest Kegger photo we have.

1988 The Georgia Peach passed away the next year.

Around the fire in the early years — someone making a point, someone listening.

Tom Caton — known as Moose — at camp among the pines.

Night at camp. Two familiar faces.

Cross Top was in good spirits. We'd bundled him up tight after his dive into the rocks.

1991 The first year of the metal stretcher.

A snow year. Note the wheely stretcher! It was used exactly once.

An early year — exact date uncertain.

Smoking a cigar at camp.

Waiting for the next keg to be brought in.

No caption yet — write the webmaster if you know this one.

Making breakfast.

No caption yet — Mike, waits for the next Keg to be brought down.

No caption yet — write the webmaster if you know who's here.

Making dinner on the open fire, lote. —

1970s Down at Pretzel's.

1970s Bare Ass Slide.

1970s Bare Ass Slide.

Willy sets up his camp.

Kathy & Kathy.

SSitting on the rock, with my dog.

The river — calm, clear, and cold. Same as it ever was.

A Sierra snow plant pushing up through the fallen timber. These vivid red stalks appear just after snowmelt — a sure sign of June in the high Sierra.