The stake has a Backpacking Trip for all the seniors each summer. Since Marian was a senior, she was invited. She decided that she did want to go. The plan was to drive to some mountain near Palm Springs on Tuesday, take a tram halfway up, then hike to their base camp and set up tents. Friday they would hike to the peak and back. Then they'd hike back out Friday and drive home. They needed to bring everything they needed on their backs- tents, food, water, everything.
Here we are, trying the pack on for size. It ended up weighing in at 30 pounds.
And I told her to take pictures. She came home having taken exactly TWO photos for me. Sigh. And apparently I didn't even download them because now I can't find them. So please enjoy the pictures I swiped from the group share from the other hikers.
Marian said she had a good time. She shared a tent with one of the other girls from our ward (who is awesome!) and it went well. There were 10 or 11 youth on the trip and they were all pretty great. Marian said she had some altitude sickness the first day and was physically miserable and felt terrible. She got some meds from one of the leaders and felt better in the morning. She liked hanging out with the group and had a really positive experience. When I picked her up Friday evening, one of the couples that chaperoned told me how awesome Marian was and how much they enjoyed her coming on the trip. The three boys in the back of the vehicle nodded and agreed. Marian did mention that she couldn't believe that one of the boys wore skinny jeans to hike in and didn't change his clothes at all for the whole trip! She was cranky that I had told her to pack a pair of clothes for each day, when she apparently did not need to.
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