Mountain Shake 'n' Bake

My sister convinced me to go up camping with the family on Friday night. I was reluctant, but I'm glad I did now. So, after work I gather Gavin and my things and headed up to Cold Springs. Cold Springs is a favorite camping spot that my family has shared for years. It has a natural spring bubbling out of the ground. The forest service has built a fence around it as the area is open range. The water coming out of that spring is probably the best water I have ever had. Here's a picture. The water is kind of hard to see. It's to right of the rock as it comes out of the ground there. The plant in the middle of the picture kind of hides it. It's pretty, none the less.

Friday night was spent sitting around the campfire, singing songs and roasting marshmallows. It had been sprinkling on and off the whole afternoon and finally got hard enough once to send us to bed.

Gavin wasn't very happy about this. I don't think he thought sleeping in a tent was his idea of fun. He kept on asking to go home. Jacs, my sister, pulled out some books she brought up to see if pictures would help calm him down. Although chapter books, the covers had pictures ;). She pulled out her Book of Mormon and started flipping through the pictures in the back. I found it rather interesting and disturbing that the only pictures in the book were recent Mormon history pictures. By recent, I mean post Josheph Smith. Funny how there are no pictures of ancient Book of Mormon places. I wasn't surprised...it was just funny. Gavin was happy with the pictures and finally did calm down enought to go to bed.

Oh how I love crisp cool mountain morning air. With the sun peaking over the pine trees in the not to far off distance. Nothing beats a more perfect setting. With morning came breakfast of french toast, bacon and sausage. No chef can surpass the quality of camping food. Okay, enough gushing from me :)
After the morning mess was cleaning up, we set out on our hike. We set out on the road which turned into a trail. We had never been on it and had no idea where it went. It was a gorgeous walk through pine trees, aspens, meadows, creeks and all sorts of beautiful flowers.

The hike took us to the top of one of the mountain at Targhee, the local ski resort. The last part of the hike was grouling as I had Gavin on my back and the incline was steen. The view was worth it, though.

You can see the valley below where I reside. We had lunch and headed home. It was much easier and faster as it was all but downhill. I was glad to get back to camp. My feet were killing me and I could tell I was going to be one sore chica. I wandered to the tent and took a much needed nap. After my short snooze I helped with dinner, dutch oven chicken, and left for the rest of the night to more fun filled adventures.