Connor had to lead the llama "Woody" for the 1st couple of days. Woody gave up on us when the going got tough and if I would have had a gun, I would have put him out of my misery!
This is part of our gang after having rain all night long at the top of Dad's Lake! Don't let the beauty deceive you! The bugs and the pure brutality of this area could NOT be captured on a picture!
Alyson and Mia were just getting ready to cross the East Fork River for the 1st time! The cold water felt good on our painful piggies!
One of Connor's 8 fish that he caught! He had THE lure, we called it the Mia lure because she had picked it out at the store because it was "pretty," it was yellow and pink and the fish LOVED it!
This is us getting ready to leave our 2nd camp and the Stewart's who stayed here for a few more days. Our packs were very heavy because we didn't have the llama's to help us this time. Believe me, this was OK by me!
These are the toughest Weaver's I know! This is right after we had summited over 10000 ft and were getting ready to make our LONNGGGG decent back to the car! Little did we know that we were only about a fourth of the way back at this point!
After hiking for HOURS we came to the East Fork River and had to dunk our heads! All the kids (and Dad) except Mia did it! As we got lower in elevation the heat and the bugs got worse and worse so the cold water was a welcome relief!
Part of what made this trip so great was how the kids worked together and NEVER complained even though it was VERY hard. Connor would hike ahead a mile or so and then run back to Mia and carry her back to his pack! He did this time and time again!
After a 12 mile hike out from our camp, tears came to our eyes when we finally arrived at our wonderful car! I've never been so happy to see that gas-guzzling beast in my entire life! We would have got more pictures, but we were too tired and the bugs were literally swarming us! It was all we could do to get this picture!We had a tough experience backpacking, but our family came together like I've never seen and we did great! I won't bore you with all the details, but it was awesome to see our kids all work together through a very tough situation!
