Mother/Daughter Backpacking Trip

Rebecca has been talking for years about how we needed to take a backpacking trip together.  This summer when Joseph was away on drill with the National Guard seemed like the perfect opportunity. We were afraid if we waited much longer, that Rebecca would be pregnant or have a child and that our trip would never happen.  Turns out that on this trip, Rebecca was already pregnant, but I didn’t know it yet (because Joseph didn’t know yet as he was away on drill and she wanted to tell him in person).  So we had another little backpacker with us.  Rebecca did a good job keeping the secret, though I’m pretty sure she had to straight up lie at one point.

I was a little worried that backpacking in July might be miserably hot.  But lo and behold, we had a cold snap like I don’t ever remember having this time of year.  The high was just in the 70s and the low was in the 50s.  We were actually quite cold in our hammocks!

We were only gone for one night, and we camped at Alley Ford in the Obed River area.  We did not see another soul on our hike in or out.

We opted for hammocks instead of tents, and we also opted not to bring anything complicated to eat.  We heated water for hot chocolate and tea and ate power bars.  We spent our time reading, napping, journaling, and having some deep conversation.  I’m so glad we went when we had the opportunity.  I think we’ll be fine camping with her little one, but we will probably not be backpacking together for a while.