Last April or was it March. Jeremy decided that he wanted to go back packing. We went to REI and looked at trail books and figured out a place to go. We love Rocky Mountain National Park. We looked at going other places but kept going back to RMNP. Jeremy found a 6 mile trail where we could camp and then do a little day hike to a lake to fish and stay in the same camp site the next night. Don't we look happy in this picture? Isn't my purple pack cute. I thought 6 miles was going to a piece of cake. I ran the Bolder Boulder. Yeah right. I had 35 pounds on my back and Jeremy had somewhere around 60 pounds. We tried to be light packers,
"but what if it rained and we were stuck in the tent."
UNO Cards have to go,
Jeremy's 4 shirts
He sweats ALOT
have to go.
Towel to wash my hair,
definite need.
Well because of all our "needs" and the hike being 6 miles of ALL UP HILL! It took us 6 hours to go six miles. HA HA! We just kept saying as we stopped every 10 feet to rest. We really are just enjoying the view. If we went faster we would miss all this beautiful stuff. And it was amazing!
"We will make it eventually"
"We would just be sitting if we got there faster"
Self pep talk on the way up
In the Meadow. So pretty. I loved this hike.
See the meadow. Look at how high we climbed. We took lots of pictures with all of our "rest" stops.
I sat down A LOT! Just so the weight of the bag would be off my back. Despite all the hard work. Jeremy and I really loved doing this! Amazing views around every corner and good laughs at how slow poke we were......
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(THE CAMP SITE....HOW TO KEEP BEARS AWAY...AND THE TOP 10 things you have to do when BACK PACKING)
1 comment:
We've been hiking a bunch this summer, and I'll admit - when I have a kid on my back, it's a ton harder than without. I think 6 hours is great time! It took us about 4 hours to do Timp, and we had no packs!
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