Emily and I have a long history of hanging out together....
Emily is a senior now (as of this writing Feb 2009) at A&M now and a life that is coming along quite nicely, thank you. When she was still a little girl she asked me to take her backpacking and I promised that when she turned 13 I would.
And I did...
This is the short history of our camping history. We've made four camping/hiking trips together.
The first one was a backpacking trip into the San Juan National Forest (picture from my journal at the left) when she was still 13.
Boy, that was fun and I'll tell you this, a Dad has lot to think about when he takes his daughter into the wilderness. But we did ok and had some nice memories.
We had a pretty good scare on this trip when shadows on the tent looked like a bear was standing outside out tent.
Fortunately, it was a false alarm.
Emily sure is one cute gal. I sure did have fun, and I think she did, too.
She still talks wistfully about that trip even 9 years later.
The rocks Emily was sitting on were left behind by a glacier that melted 250 million years ago.
I was still a little baby then.
We also took a trip into the Bridger-Teton Wilderness 4 years later... but I can't find any pictures at the moment of that one.
Oh yeah... I started this story out telling you about the Lost Maple trips...
This picture above was taken on the high trail, and is courtesy of Wikipedia (used with permission)
Some kid jumping off a rock, it wasn't me (but could have been 40 years ago!!)
Emily is contemplating going into the cold water.
One of the ways to deal with the heat is to take a swim in an artesian spring....
I didn't think she would do it!!!