For my birthday, I wanted to do a family backpacking trip.  We opted to do nearly the same exact trip we did with the HTC men’s group in early June, documented here, here, and here.  As the trips were almost identical, I’ll not go into the details of the journey.  I’ll just say that the kids did very well in the 20 miles and nearly 4000′ of climb that we did, and post some photos.

Day 1

We stopped for a “coffee break” for me and a rest stop for everyone else.  Reece threw up the hammock and chilled while Kelly got some sun in the back.

Here’s the kid’s tent site near Wise Shelter (just on the other side of the creek):

Mess hall:

Day 2

Heading out:

(a bit of a joke as we had only walked about 5 minutes!)

 

Rock climbing:

Lunch break

Evening camp site:

 

Our site was invaded by ponies…  Some editing done by Riley:

Day 3