After running the brutal hills yesterday, I skipped running and we went for a hike instead. We went to Ledgefork Trailhead.
We started out on Erickson Basin Trail.
Paul took his backpack for a trial run. He packed it with his sleeping bag, tent, stove, water filter, bottle of water and little snacks. It weighed 14.8lb. This isn’t everything he needs for a full pack, but for a trial run, it wasn’t bad. We are planning on doing a backpacking trip later this summer.
Eli was too funny. He kept handing me things. Flowers, and magical leaves. He is such a cute boy!!
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We hiked to a river and tried out the water pump with a filter. A hose goes into the river, you pump out the water and it filters it into a bottle.
How does it taste? Really good. Who needs to purchase a $2.00 bottle of sparkling water? 🙂
Eli begged me to have my phone to play a game. It’s been 2 days without electronics and he is going crazy. Paul told him if he spots a deer before he does he can have the phone. That got Eli’s attention and sure enough, Eli spotted one we missed!
We headed back to the cabin and packed up and headed home.
At home after we unpacked the truck, Eli wanted to watch TV for min. This is how I found him. Why did he have is hiking pack on? He said so he didn’t have to get up to get water. Nice. Good thing we are an active family and we get out often or I would be worried!