A Vacation of Highs and Lows

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We don’t do it for the food. The Raspberry Crumble looks worse than it tastes, though the freeze-dried eggs looked and tasted disgusting.
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The tent looks cute but a bed beats out a sleeping bag and a thermorest pad.
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The mosquitoes certainly don’t make this a better way to spend a vacation.
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And sometimes the hiking uphill, at high elevation, is more of a challenge than any of us want.
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But when we are done I think all of us – myself, my husband Jim, and our daughter Lizzie – would agree that we are looking forward to doing it again.

Maybe it is the incredible views.
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Maybe it is the wildflowers, which were spectacular this year.
Mariposa Lily (Calochortus leichtlinii)
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Or maybe it is the quiet and peace that allows us to listen to ourselves in way that is impossible with the distractions of modern living.
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Whatever it is, we forget the lows and come back full of the highs of the back country. Here are some pictures of our five-day backpacking trip in Sequoia National Park (Twin Lakes Trail to Ranger Lake, over Silliman Pass, to Seville Lake, to Rowell Meadow, over JO Pass and back to the trailhead).

3 thoughts on “A Vacation of Highs and Lows

  1. What a wonderful-sounding vacation! After a youth spent backpacking around Arizona, I decided my back needed a bed at night. I do miss the great places you can only go with a backpack, though. Glad you had a good time.

  2. That sounds great! I do hope we&#39;ll see more wildflowers. <br /><br />I have to agree with you on the Thermarest, though. Somehow, the padding (on me) has moved to the wrong places, and I do prefer a bed…

  3. Thanks for your comments, Oakwoods and TM. Hoping we can and will continue putting up with inconveniences cause I find myself thinking about the outdoors more and more when I get back to the city.

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