We set out on Friday, got to our camp site, set up, had delish tin foil dinners, chatted around the campfire, went to bed (froze while sleeping, unless you were a guy and then you slept outside and were fine...). The next morning we got up, had amazing hearty mountain man breakfasts, and drove up to the trailhead...or so we thought....
Packed in the car (how many of us were there? 11?) on the way to the trailhead...we had no idea what adventures would await us...dun dun dun...
We drive up to the trailhead only to find out that the road's impassable due to snow. Thinking we're only a mile or so away (and going directly against what an Asian guy in a car told us), we hop out to walk the rest of the away. Nearly four and a half miles later we get to the trail head. There is still tons of snow on the ground. A bad sign? Maybe...but we keep going anyway.
We should've listened to the sign!!!
We keep going, only to totally lose the trail due to the fact that it's still covered in snow. We start following some random footprints (that probably led to some guy dead in the wilderness, because they sure weren't going anywhere, haha). At three we break for lunch while a few of the guys go exploring to see if we can't find the right trail and manage to get back to our camp site. No luck, we're hiking toward a cliff. At that point we decide the smartest thing to do would be to turn around and go back. Eight hours, sixteen miles, and a whole lot of sunburns later we get back.
It was awesome. :)
The next day after going to church in jeans (haha, so awkward!) we went and climbed on boulders. It was way fun!
Making our way through the teeny crack in the rocks
If you couldn't catch that, we were trying to open pudding snackpacks and couldn't because our hands were so frozen and swollen and unusable. Hahaha, it seriously took us forever to finally eat that delicious chocolate goodness.
I heart camping! Yay for good friends and gorgeous nature! :)
3 comments:
Those are some sweet pictures:D I love the one where all our heads are in a line at the boulders:D. "Doing crack on Sunday". I almost want to put a post on my blog that says just this: "For info on the camping trip see fromthemindofkatie.blogspot.com lol
that looks like it was so so fun!
HA HA HA!!!! Should've listened to the Asian. Why can't we learn? I mean, in all the movies the heroes go get advice from old Asian guys. Why were we so blind!? That guy was our Master Yoshi. So much for attaining enlightenment.... :)P
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