It's nice to see adults taking interest in kids. Two of our local assistant wrestling coaches take the wrestlers water skiing and paintballing every summer. Even though I take my kids out fishing, hiking or hunting every chance we get, it means an awfull lot to the them for an adult not related to them to show an interest. Keep up the good work, it is appreciated!
Hike from this weekend...
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA lol god dont you hate those oh SH&^* moments! lol ha ha i bet after the leaf lickers found out an avid sled head started it, that would be awsome ammo for them to use and would be the end of sledding once and for all...all because of YOU! ha ha ha good read scott!!!
I think that is what life is about man! Good on you! I wish I could take more time to do stuff like that.. great pics also..
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girlpowder
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Freak Mode!!!!
I would have felt like you for sure. I'm that person that turns the car around because I think I forgot to shut the fireplace door, turn off the coffee, put down the garage door, or turn off the stove. Eventually I'll turn around for not making my bed. But sometimes we just do things and don't remember doing them. Every time I second guess myself I shouldn't have. I'm glad your story turned out to be lightning.
Wow, loved your story and the pictures are still great. Sleeping in the dirt looks adventurous and I bet on a clear night the stars are unbelievable.
Has anyone ever thought while in the back country hiking and backpacking about how fast one could get out if a fire were to start? We have.... We were 4 maybe 5 miles on a hike with our kids and the thunder started crackling. My hub and I were both thinking the same thing... What if lightning hit and started a fire. It is so dry and in our neck of the woods there is a lot of dead fall and standing dead. Our forest has been struck with the mountain pine beetle and all you see is RUST. Standing dead pine trees.
We thought how fast could we get out of here???? Our kids are small, 5 & 7. We turned at that point and started heading out. The thought of being stuck back there made me hike a bit faster. But what if????? What a terrible thought. Could I be calm with our kids in a situation like that?
Did the fisherman get everyone out okay???
I would have felt like you for sure. I'm that person that turns the car around because I think I forgot to shut the fireplace door, turn off the coffee, put down the garage door, or turn off the stove. Eventually I'll turn around for not making my bed. But sometimes we just do things and don't remember doing them. Every time I second guess myself I shouldn't have. I'm glad your story turned out to be lightning.
Wow, loved your story and the pictures are still great. Sleeping in the dirt looks adventurous and I bet on a clear night the stars are unbelievable.
Has anyone ever thought while in the back country hiking and backpacking about how fast one could get out if a fire were to start? We have.... We were 4 maybe 5 miles on a hike with our kids and the thunder started crackling. My hub and I were both thinking the same thing... What if lightning hit and started a fire. It is so dry and in our neck of the woods there is a lot of dead fall and standing dead. Our forest has been struck with the mountain pine beetle and all you see is RUST. Standing dead pine trees.
We thought how fast could we get out of here???? Our kids are small, 5 & 7. We turned at that point and started heading out. The thought of being stuck back there made me hike a bit faster. But what if????? What a terrible thought. Could I be calm with our kids in a situation like that?
Did the fisherman get everyone out okay???
It has been monsooning for the last 18 hours now. RAINING HARD. It's only about 52° right now down in the valley...I'd bet there is snow up there today. Fires should feel a little moist. And I can be certain that our camp fire is cold and moist now too. LOL
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The wrath of Snowesters.... oh yea, there's something to lose sleep over. LMAO
Bad feeling...bad, bad feeling.
Thanks for sharing the trip.
I can't believe you have never backpacked in a wilderness area before.
I will be in the selway scouting after i help slim bag his ram, and than coming back a week later and doing a solo 5 day backpack mulie hunt in the selway-bitteroot wilderness.
tim
I will be in the selway scouting after i help slim bag his ram, and than coming back a week later and doing a solo 5 day backpack mulie hunt in the selway-bitteroot wilderness.
tim
Tim, I know. And I've lived here all my life.
I've never taken the time to do it. I'm either hunting, wrestling, sledding, golfing or water skiing.
It's not SW'ers I was worried about. I was speaking about my REAL life outside of this place.
I've never taken the time to do it. I'm either hunting, wrestling, sledding, golfing or water skiing.
It's not SW'ers I was worried about. I was speaking about my REAL life outside of this place.
You didn't have to point it out... everyone but GTG knew what you were talking about...... now that is something to LMAO at!
The hike looked really cool. Glad you made the trip and that you all had a good time. Props to you!
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I don't want to make you lose any more sleep but......I have come across a fire smoldering under 8' of snow at the end of March.
Imagine this, you’re busting through 2' of powder on a great base and you stop to water up, when you smell heat (something you acquire from being a fire fighter), We sniff it out and come across smoke rising out of the snow???? Yeah, I thought I had seen and heard a lot of stories fighting fires but nothing like this. We were on the edge of a wilderness area in Utah (Utah is usually rather dry most of the year except for winter). Long story longer the fire was burning because of a left over fire that some hikers or sledders had started some time earlier in the season. We never found the fire pit, I guess it had been covered over by new snow but that doesn’t mean the hot coals were out! In spring the snow pack separates somewhat from the ground, making a few inches gap along large areas of ground. Even though the snow is 10’ deep there will be this little pocket of air between the snow pack and ground, it is still too cold in March for the snow to melt so the conditions on the ground are similar to mid October, dry and ready to burn (Utah winters begin when summer ends, not really a fall rainy season like most Mountain regions, so the ground is bone dry when the snow flies). The fire had melted through the snow pack, fell into this 3-6 inch deep gap under the snow and smoldered until the duff (dry piles of pine needles/leafs/pinecones) ignited. The fire had spread some distance when we found it still smoldering, hot and smok’n. Like I said we couldn’t ever fine the exact location of the fire pit but it looked like it had traveled some distance up the slightly sloped terrain until we found it near a ridge.
So to calm your fears, I’m no expert but I think the fire you guys had camping will be fine, a lake on one side, rock slabs around the others, rain for the next two months, you should feel confident you don’t need to hike back up their to just make sure the fire doesn’t need another dousing
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BTW nice picts, I love to see young ones getting out and partaking of the wild outdoors!
Imagine this, you’re busting through 2' of powder on a great base and you stop to water up, when you smell heat (something you acquire from being a fire fighter), We sniff it out and come across smoke rising out of the snow????
Yeah, I thought I had seen and heard a lot of stories fighting fires but nothing like this. We were on the edge of a wilderness area in Utah (Utah is usually rather dry most of the year except for winter). Long story longer the fire was burning because of a left over fire that some hikers or sledders had started some time earlier in the season. We never found the fire pit, I guess it had been covered over by new snow but that doesn’t mean the hot coals were out! In spring the snow pack separates somewhat from the ground, making a few inches gap along large areas of ground. Even though the snow is 10’ deep there will be this little pocket of air between the snow pack and ground, it is still too cold in March for the snow to melt so the conditions on the ground are similar to mid October, dry and ready to burn (Utah winters begin when summer ends, not really a fall rainy season like most Mountain regions, so the ground is bone dry when the snow flies). The fire had melted through the snow pack, fell into this 3-6 inch deep gap under the snow and smoldered until the duff (dry piles of pine needles/leafs/pinecones) ignited. The fire had spread some distance when we found it still smoldering, hot and smok’n. Like I said we couldn’t ever fine the exact location of the fire pit but it looked like it had traveled some distance up the slightly sloped terrain until we found it near a ridge. So to calm your fears, I’m no expert but I think the fire you guys had camping will be fine, a lake on one side, rock slabs around the others, rain for the next two months, you should feel confident you don’t need to hike back up their to just make sure the fire doesn’t need another dousing
.BTW nice picts, I love to see young ones getting out and partaking of the wild outdoors!
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