Backpacking

Meric and I went backpacking over the weekend with one of Meric's coworkers (Cherice) and the dogs. The weather was great. Nice and cool and the rain held off until we were in our tents for the night. It got just a little chilly over night but not too bad.

It was a lot of fun but really hard. I am so sore I can hardly move and I have blisters on both feet. It is amazing how comfortable laying on the ground can be after walking for so long with a huge pack on your back. Sometimes we would stop and just sprawl out in the middle of the trail.

The dogs had a blast. Emmy and Lucy loved being the leaders and Lucy is great when you need a little help climbing up a hill. I usually was behind and Jasper was so cute and would keep coming back to check and make sure I was coming. It was funny cuz Cherice noticed right away that Jasper was a momma's boy and asked us how we got him so well trained, we laughed and said he just came that way. Lucy was Cherice's tent buddy, and as usual we have another person who would be willing to take Lucy if we ever decided to get rid of her.

In all we went just over 13 miles in 2 days. That is including the 1st mile and a half we went on the wrong trail. The trail started on one side of the parking lot, met up with another trail that looped back to end on the other side of the parking lot. Well at the start of the trail there is a road right next to it and we started up the road, missing the trail. After 1 1/2 miles we reached the end of the road at some camp ground and the trail went off into some bike trails. So Meric ran back to the car, got the map, noticed the right trail and drove back up the road to pick us up so that we could go back to the parking lot and start on the right trail. Kinda funny to do an extra 1 1/2 miles, but we called it our practice run for the real trail.

I attached some pictures from our trip. Jasper loves having his picture taken.