Rocky Mtn pt.1 - Camping

Hope everyone had a great 4th weekend! Seagal and I did a 2-night backcountry camping trip in Rocky Mountain National Park and it was incredible fun! So much fun that I'm going to split up the blogging into 3 parts. yeah, you love it!

As you can see, my pack was rather large. I've only car camped befpre this trip, so I've never had to carry all of my gear like this, and let me tell you...it was not the most comfortable thing! To make matters less pleasant, we got rained on pretty much the entire way, but we did manage a nice (and dry) stop by the river at one point. From the Dunraven trailhead on the very northeast side of Rocky Mtn Natl Park, we hiked a total 6.7 miles to get to our campsite.

Our campsite was sweeeeeet! Way better than any hotel room! We had a bridge as the entrance to our site, a sweet dining room (that's our table and the log on the right was our chair), and once we got set up, we also had great sleeping accommodations. When you're in the backcountry, you have to hang up all of your food and anything that smells that might attract the bears...we had a genius counterbalance system that nobody was going to reach (even us sometimes!)

Once we figured out where we were, we took a little stroll as a preview for the next day's adventure. As with any hike with me and Seagal, it involved walking along fallen trees. This is something we manage to do every opportunity we get...one of these days, one of us will have a good wipe out, but not today! Oh yeah, and here's a pretty butterfly.

Tune in in a couple days for our plunge into Lake Husted...