So my peeps! Cameron and I wanted to spend our one year anniversery backpacking and camping. So we decided to go to a beautiful little place in Vail, CO called Booth Falls and Lake. Friday morning we got up early and finished packing, loaded the car, and were on our way. We got a little confused by the directions once we were in Vail, but found our way shortly after that. We geared up and started up from 8,500 feet at 11:20am (a later start than we wanted). Our plan was to hike the 6 miles up to Booth Lake and camp overnight (keep in mind it was a 3,000 feet evelvation change and we were carrying over 30lb backpacks) (yuck). I am apparently way outa shape (even though i basically did this same thing on my snowshoe hut-to-hut trip in April). We had to take lots of breaks the first 2 miles for me.
These are the first little baby falls we came to. We had to fill up with water (using the rad water pump David gave us!)
It was really hot, but the water was freezing....perfect!
Do we look like we are dying... well we were :)
Schnooze was having a blast!
David this pic is for you... see the water pump filter???
At Booth Falls! Some really sweet family from Lawerence, KS (rock chalk) took our pic! Everyone we met was excited for us that we were going all the way to the Lake!
The falls were stunning!
Crazy drop off. They were sooooo loud too!
View from where we were at the falls!
Around the bend then to the drop off! It was kinda scary where I was standing.
So.... the reason this hike was so difficult was that there was actually a lot of snow. We didn't bring snow shoes, b/c we honestly didn't think we needed them (and they woulda been super heavy to carry). We came to several spots where the snow was waist deep. I got stuck on one occasion, and Cam had to pull me out. Most of the time the snow we encountered was just calf/knee deep. There were some tracks we could follow from other hikers. BUT eventually we couldn't find any tracks. This pic is when we came to a spot on the trail where we could see the trail in front of us (about 30 yards ahead) but there was a stream covered in snow, and we didn't want to take the risk of falling in. So the pics will depict a little adventure Cam led us on to get to the trail!
We had to hit the rock or we'd be in the stream :). Cam slid with both bags, then schnooze went, then I went!
Our bootay marks in the snow!
From across the stream safely!
We had been hiking for almost 7 hours, and we lost the trail in the snow. We were exhausted, so we set up camp and started cooking. Cam found some old dead wood and started a fire while I set up the tent. Schnooze was soooo cold and tired (well i guess I was too). This is me in the tent with all the clothews i brought on (a tank top, wool long underwear top, another wool long underwear top, and my fleece, a hat, wool long undies bottoms, and some other pants, with 2 pairs of socks and gloves! Brr! We ate some noodles and some freeze dried smores thing and headed to bed. It wasn't that great of a night, but we managed.
View from our tent before the sun went behind the mountain (about 6:30ish pm)
View from tent as sun sets (7:30ish pm)
Our bootay marks in the snow!
From across the stream safely!
We had been hiking for almost 7 hours, and we lost the trail in the snow. We were exhausted, so we set up camp and started cooking. Cam found some old dead wood and started a fire while I set up the tent. Schnooze was soooo cold and tired (well i guess I was too). This is me in the tent with all the clothews i brought on (a tank top, wool long underwear top, another wool long underwear top, and my fleece, a hat, wool long undies bottoms, and some other pants, with 2 pairs of socks and gloves! Brr! We ate some noodles and some freeze dried smores thing and headed to bed. It wasn't that great of a night, but we managed.
View from our tent before the sun went behind the mountain (about 6:30ish pm)
View from tent as sun sets (7:30ish pm)
(Getting way colder)
Cam cooking (wih fleece long undies on :))
cute us at sunset
Silly Cam
This is us pulling a Mom and David!!!! But mom, we did not have to cut cam out and paste him in... there are things called timers :)
Cam cooking (wih fleece long undies on :))
cute us at sunset
Silly Cam(if you zoom in, you can see the snot dripping out of my nose...sexy)
So, we woke up at about 7am and ate breakfast and closed up camp. we hiked out in 3 hours (instead of the 7 it took up to get up). I didn't realize it, but my cell was on and i randomly (after I realized i was not hallucinating) got a call from sus, that said she got her passport!
We met a lot of people hikinh to the lake on our way down and we gave them lots of pointers!
We stopped in Frisco (near breckenridge) and ate some mexican food (with beers and margaritas)!!!!
Then we headed to our next camping site for some good ole car camping!
This is us pulling a Mom and David!!!! But mom, we did not have to cut cam out and paste him in... there are things called timers :)Busting out with a fire, some burgers, and some beer!
What is cam's face doing? smoke from the fire in his eyes?
Our campsite at Kenosha Pass (off of S 285 about 1 1/2 hours from Denver)
Cam starting the fire!
We ate at Bonefish and had some awesome Charr fish (it's like salmon) and some King Crab Legs! mmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm! I also tried a pinapple Mojito! It was so good. We were stuffed full! But of course when we got to the theater I HAD to get buttered popcorn :).
What is cam's face doing? smoke from the fire in his eyes?
Our campsite at Kenosha Pass (off of S 285 about 1 1/2 hours from Denver)See our new 2 man tent... it's so freaking awesome!
Cam starting the fire!
It was about 60ish degrees there! So nice!
We were at about 10,000 feet, but it didn't get as cold at night time.
We played cards in the tent 9cam kicked my butt at Gin), then went to sleep, a much better nights sleep than friday night. We woke up and cooked eggs and bacon and had a peach! Then we packed up and headed home. Poor schnooze was pooped out! She didn't move the whole way home. We unpacked, washed schnooze (she was a mess), washed the awesome Jeep, took showers, and went to eat, and to see Ocean's 13.
We played cards in the tent 9cam kicked my butt at Gin), then went to sleep, a much better nights sleep than friday night. We woke up and cooked eggs and bacon and had a peach! Then we packed up and headed home. Poor schnooze was pooped out! She didn't move the whole way home. We unpacked, washed schnooze (she was a mess), washed the awesome Jeep, took showers, and went to eat, and to see Ocean's 13.
We ate at Bonefish and had some awesome Charr fish (it's like salmon) and some King Crab Legs! mmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm! I also tried a pinapple Mojito! It was so good. We were stuffed full! But of course when we got to the theater I HAD to get buttered popcorn :). It was a fabulous anniversery!
Oh ps:
I got cam a gun that shoots big marshmallows 40ft, a new camelback nalgene thing, and a lantern. He got me really pretty earrings, a cute bag, perfume, and some tulips!!!!!
