We thought we would finally post some of our great camping adventures this summer! Our most recent and longest trip was the Grandaddy basin where we packed in for 3 nights and 4 days. It was a 16 mile loop at 10,000 ft., with 15 different lakes it was amazing! We were only able to make it to six of the lakes but each one was beautiful. Our first day we hiked in 5 miles and camped at a small lake called Mohawk.

This is Grandaddy Lake the largest of all the lakes.

We didn't get pictures at our first camp but this was our sencond campsite, Pine Island Lake. Personaly it was my favorite spot of our trip, although we had some major thunderstorms here.

Kirk trying to keep the fire going during the storm

On day three we camped at Betsey Lake atop a little hill.

This is a short video of some thunder while we were waiting for the rain to stop. Being at these high altitudes we heard the loudest thunder we have ever heard.

Waiting out the rain:(

On our hike out we decided to stop and take a group picture. We had a blast on the trip and we ate really good. If you ever go backpacking try out Mountain House's freeze dried dinners, especially the beef stroganof, it was Falycia's favorite.

Our first trip we went up Y mountain and beyond, into a quiet little meadow. The hike was hard! We will say it kicked all our butts, but getting to the meadow at the end was worth it. We just stayed one night here.



The lovely meadow!

Sleepy heads:)