Bits and Pieces

Tuesday March 10^th

Today we woke up with two things we knew we must to today, the closest thing we have had to a to- do list so far.  We must hike and somehow get clean! During our morning cup of Joe that we had while walking along the river we decided that our hike would be on a forest fire road just up from our camp site.  It was pretty straight up; we had intentions of taking pictures on this hike but in all the excitement of the move Mike forgot to charge his battery on his camera.  So that hike we only have mental pictures.  But I can tell you it was full of manzanita trees, babbling brooks and forest filled with sequoias.  We stopped at 2 miles up, Tink was slowing down and we knew we still needed her to make it to the bottom.  With our first to do checked off we knew we still had to figure out how to get clean, when there are no showers around, our only option was the river!  We grabbed out bars of soap and headed down.  Thinking we were the only ones left in the campground we thought we could maybe really get clean, so down to the birthday suit it was.  Not a minute after, I looked up to see two kids and their dad up a head of us.  I have never seen Mike move that fast;-)  We found a nice warm rock to spend the rest of the afternoon sunning ourselves on.  We collected some more fire wood for our regular fire and did our normal routine of dinner and putting the bins away in the bear proof storage.  We thought we had settled in for another comfortable night of sleep.  Stay tuned for what we were woken up to!!.......................

Who does he look like here?  Think wolf pack;-)

This is serious camping

planning our next stops 

Our river hike in the evening, I love the light of the evening.

strike a pose

loving mountain life

so fun to figure out how to get from one side to the next and not get wet 

a swimming pool

Love my mountain man!

Chief of the campfire

What a perfect place for a tent

We camp old school style:)