Our Backpacking adventure
The wife said “if you make it happen we’ll go”; well I made it happen…
Sunday, August 19th, 2006, 1:30PM, it was a rough start; I had between 70 and 80lb on my back to carry while the lil’ woman pulled her weight with about 30-40lb on hers.
It was between 23 and 27C and our hike took about 3 hours; same hike normally takes under two hours when we’re not loaded down to the gills.
If you look at the map below we parked our car where indicated and followed the northwest edge of the lake (about 4km to the camp ground) over mostly flat terrain. There were a few gentle grades but with our packs if felt like we were climbimg Mount Everest.
Once we got to the campsite we quickly recovered and setup camp for the night. First item of business was the shelter which I took care of (we hot an Asolo Hawk 3 tent) while the lil’ woman went to the creek to get water. We purified our water using the Pristine ClO2 Water Treatment kits which involves mixing a solution into the water to sterilize it. Believe me after several hours of sloggin that water tasted good.
Note: that I’m not affiliated with any of the product mentioned here; no sir, no kickbacks or endorsements other than my own use of these products…pffft
Dinner consisted of camp fire weiners and beans and lots of fruit punch ;) We also did some smores and hit the hay early.
Our son was suffering from some allergies and the Snoritator 2000 scared of any potential predators while preventing us from sleeping. I have to say that I kept the wildlife protection (pepper spray) nearby as I’d never heard quite so many wilderness sounds as I did that night.
Although the weather was hot during the day any parts of the body not inside a sleeping bag got chilled in the middle of the night (lesson learned…get a big enough sleeping bag).
Natalie and the lil’ woman got up early while the Snorinator and I slept in until 8:00 the next day.
Check out the travel album below:
