June 11, 2012

Time for a Camping Trip

This past weekend, we went camping to get away and enjoy some solid time together. What a LOT of adventures we had! Here's a sampling of pictures from our weekend.

All packed up and ready to go!

We found a relatively flat location for our camp site.

...and enjoyed a few minutes of cloud gazing
before getting to work on camp life.

First priority: water.
We pumped and filtered it from a nearby stream.

Reading while it was still daylight.
Buffs come in really handy for staying warm
and helping(ish) with mosquitoes. Ouch!

Willing the water to boil faster.

Joshua read up on camping safety info before leaving home.
We hung all of our food and scented products between trees.

You can practically hike ANYwhere!
So many trails to explore... 

Much to my surprise, we made it to The Colorado Trail -
which runs from Denver to Durango. 

Laura the explora'.

The sky just looks different here.
We love it!

Requisite shadow picture along the trail. 

Our typical meal while camping:
dry food packet and tea. Mmm!

We is Hobbitses!
Or at least we felt like it while walking along this path.

2 comments:

Anneliese said...

Only One Question how did you guys get that stuff up the tree??????

Unknown said...

That's easy - now that I know how.

We used the following method, which I read about online:

Put a rock in a little mesh bag and tie the rope to it. Throw bag with rock over a tall branch on tree A.

Untie and do the same with the other side of the rope and throw over tall branch on other nearby tree B.

Tie food onto the middle of the rope and pull each side from trees A and B to lift contents in-between trees. To secure the cargo tie the ropes around the tree trunks.

I know you'll be doing this in the background in no time. It might work for squirrels too...