It's been far too long since we did an actual backpacking trip...as in hike in, camp, then hike out the next day. We decided we'd take advantage of a free weekend we had while it was still nice out and plan a trip. This would also be Ben's first backpacking trip (he's car camped before, but that's it), so we had to find a dog friendly trail. We finally settled on Old Snowy Mountain in the Goat Rocks wilderness. I didn't really know much about this area so I figured we'd give it a shot. The day before we were going to leave, we randomly discovered that 4 of our other friends were planning to do the exact same trip!
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| The Crew...and Ben's butt |
We drove down Saturday morning and hiked up about 5 miles where we met up with the other group of our friends who had kindly left us messages along the trail to show us where they went. After joining their little camp spot and setting up our stuff, we continued (backpack free) up the rest of the mountain. Unfortunately it did start raining/hailing a bit on us on the way up, but nothing too bad. We still enjoyed the great views of surrounding mountains, valleys, and snow. We headed back down to our camp spot in the meadows below and enjoyed the sunset and a little campfire with the group. It was such a fun group to hang out with for the night! I think having the group made Ben feel a little more comfortable too.
Sunday morning we slowly got moving with some coffee and drying out all our stuff before packing up and heading back down the mountain. By the time we got back down the mountain I'd say we were all pleasantly exhausted and ready to relax for the rest of the night. Hopefully we'll be able to get in a few more backpacking trips before the nice weather is over!
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