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Wednesday Aug 21, 2013 #
Hike (Backpacking Trip) 4:20:00 [1] 8.9 mi (29:13 / mi)
Pictured Rocks backpacking trip with my dad.
Day 1: Munising to Potato Patch campground. We got started around 4 pm thinking "OK, at 3 miles per hour, we should be at our campsite by 7 pm." Well, the trail wasn't really that hard, but it was really rooty, which slowed things down with a full pack. 10 minutes in, it started raining. It rained almost the entire trek out there with hail occasionally peppered in there. We pulled out our lunches with about 1.9 miles to go at Miner's Castle. It was a nice break in the rain and Dad got a few good photos - really the only scenery on the first day other than a cool waterfall shortly after the stop. We continued on, and I was getting nervous because it was looking like we wouldn't be in by dark - we were moving a lot slower than anticipated! The last thing was a big climb to the top of the cliff on a steep trail. Dad was really struggling due to pretty much not training at all, so I ran ahead to drop my pack off at the campsite and then ran back to get his. Chatted with the park ranger for a bit on the hill. He was impressed with how I moved both with the pack and without and said that he wanted to recruit me as a park ranger! Ha! I told him about adventure racing and he was totally interested. There was just enough light for me to find my headlamp once we got to the site. We set the tent up by headlamp and pretty much went right to sleep at 9:15 pm after killing dozens of mosquitos that got into the tent.
Day 1: Munising to Potato Patch campground. We got started around 4 pm thinking "OK, at 3 miles per hour, we should be at our campsite by 7 pm." Well, the trail wasn't really that hard, but it was really rooty, which slowed things down with a full pack. 10 minutes in, it started raining. It rained almost the entire trek out there with hail occasionally peppered in there. We pulled out our lunches with about 1.9 miles to go at Miner's Castle. It was a nice break in the rain and Dad got a few good photos - really the only scenery on the first day other than a cool waterfall shortly after the stop. We continued on, and I was getting nervous because it was looking like we wouldn't be in by dark - we were moving a lot slower than anticipated! The last thing was a big climb to the top of the cliff on a steep trail. Dad was really struggling due to pretty much not training at all, so I ran ahead to drop my pack off at the campsite and then ran back to get his. Chatted with the park ranger for a bit on the hill. He was impressed with how I moved both with the pack and without and said that he wanted to recruit me as a park ranger! Ha! I told him about adventure racing and he was totally interested. There was just enough light for me to find my headlamp once we got to the site. We set the tent up by headlamp and pretty much went right to sleep at 9:15 pm after killing dozens of mosquitos that got into the tent.