First up we have a lovely camping night in a valley that I don't remember the name of. I was a great evening of many friends, lots of wonderful food, a failed attempt at night koob, and some serious star gazing. It came to my attention that the android software has a wonderful star finding app, with the help of this we saw a great many constellations. The evening passed on as many fine nights of camping do. The net morning we awake had a hearty breakfast and stared down our challenge of the day, a small mountain that we camped in the night shadow of. It took a little guess work lot find the trailq but soon fat man and I were off on a vertical journey. A mile or so in we began remembering why we call ourselves "smoker and fatman", and it is because we were huffing and puffing stopping often and gasping for air on many occasions, but we are also determined and eventually we found some semblance of a rhythm. With approximately an hour head start we thought we would easily be the first to make it to the "top". But alas others in our group are in much better shape and it did not take them very long to catch up and pass us, but we kept on anyway. Eventually we found our target area (it became our target area when we realized how far away the true peak was)th e heat was high and it was our first hike of the season. Besides this sub-peak had an excellent view and even some snow for fat man to dive into that is until he remembered that snow while wearing warm weather clothing is apparently cold. We hung around the top playing and taking photos for quite a while, and we also realized that this mountain is on the opposite side from pine valley, which you might remember from "one cow roadtrip". Pine valley is still on my list of places that needs to be explored. Overall it was a very successful adventure and a great warm up for the season.
A couple of weeks later we had another camping adventure known to many as "meatfest". A fun night out in e scrub.and again food was amazing there were several groups of pele that took to hiking in multiple directions, the amount of people that come out for this event astonished me and there were even friends that traveled a long way to return to the festivities this year. Some of us had a wee bit too much to dry and don't remember the night as well as we probably should but I do remember getting lost in the woods looking for my tent for quite some time, which btw was not entirely my fault. I did learn a down side to camping on the west side of a mountain, when night comes it takes a long time for the moon to rise over it. This is good for stars but bad for much wanted light at night.
A couple of weeks ago i went on a nice couple of mile hike around a lake in the cedar beaks area. this was a great little trip that included some great photos around a "lake", which was really more a medium sized pond that was pretty dirty. but the trails around it were great for walking and in a couple of places gave a nice view out over a very pretty valley. also i had been in a funk for a few days and found it to be a great way to get my attitude properly adjusted again. also while hiking around i found several places where there was still snow and found this remarkable as it was the middle of summer by this point. but i guess at a higher elevation in places that the sun cant get to snow can survive for a very long time.
I'm sure I am missing an adventure or two in here but the larger hikes or adventures deserve their own article. so with that I will move on and begin writing those.
"the outdoors offer limitless possibilities, find out for yourself."
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