Quote: Matthew Hebert, August 2009
Now most of you wont find some deep philosophical meaning in the above quote. And thank god for that. This was just one of many hilarious things said on our 5 day backpacking trip with Sarah into the Ten Lakes Area.
We went with two purposes. The first was to check out an area that was being reviewed to be opened up for snowmobiles. The second was a chance to spend 5 days with Sar backpacking.
We, being John, myself, Sarah, Tyler (sarah's really great boyfriend), Matt my nephew, and Katie his girlfriend, heading into uncharted wilderness in the Ten Lakes Area.
The route was to be to Rainbow Lake, via trail for 2.8 miles and then ????? miles bushwacking to the Lake.
We eventually arrive at the lake 5 hours later. It was beautiful and remote. Tyler got to flyfish and caught us dinner. That alone made the trip.
The next morning we headed up to the next lake, and I do mean up. All day we bushwacked, followed the topo map and crawled over trees. We pulled ourselves up the hill uses the trees. When we were all around ready to say enough Katie clearly states "There's the fucking lake". We all laugh, partly because Katie is hilarious and also because we were all relieved to find the lake. As we are sitting around the fire later that night, Matt goes "You know what, it was like we walked out of a forest and there was a lake. Which is exactly what we did.
I have no idea why it was so funny. But you know sometimes you just have to be there to appreciate the weird humor that family events create.
We had a great time and really admire both Tyler and Katie for keeping up with us.
We hiked next to Wolverine Lake, then to Bluebird the following day. Each lake gave us an opportunity to taste the fresh fish caught by Tyler and just have a great time with each others. We laughed, heckled each other and just had a fantastic time.
We are planning on going to the China Wall next year. Anybody else want to come?
2 comments:
That was probably my favorite quote of the week! It was great to get to go out with you guys, always fun times. The dogs seem to have recovered enough that we've had to take a walk and go to the dog park. Oh yeah, and Paige got stung by a bee...always a good time. Hope you are enjoying the coast!
love you!
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I'm definitely up for the China Wall next year. Count me in!
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