This post it dedicated to one of our favorite trips this summer. We recently purchased two Ten Toes inflated SUPs. We have never used them before but always wanted to try them out. We take our kayaks at go to as many spots as we can. They are some prohibitive in where you can go since they are 14 foot and hard to pack down a trail. So they usually stay closer to roads (well some wouldn't call them roads but more trails that do allow motorized access) and don't take them into areas like this. More on those in another post, this one is our trip to the secluded lake that the few that do go in pack as light as possible due to the extreme nature of the trail. This lake sits at over 10,000 feet in elevation. The last part of the trail is a very steep and hard to navigate with all our gear. But my wife and I always wanting to do new things and trying to do things in areas that others have never thought of before decided that since we had the inflatable Ten Toes Boards we would make the trip and see what it would turn out like. We also took the newest addition to our family, Meeko a rescue pup for the local shelter. He was 8 months old at the time and is a hound mix, we think he is beagle and ACD. But we don't know for sure what he is, what we do know is that he is ours, and he loves our family as much as we love him. The hike in took a while. The kids packed as much as they could which consisted of their inflatable tube, orca whale, clothes, water and sleeping bag. My wife and I packed in everything else for our stay, food, tent, cook ware, fishing poles, and of course the SUP. We decided to only take one since they weigh 30 pounds (not a lot but on a backpacking trip down this trail it seemed like more. Once we arrived at the lake after being caught in a down pour (luckily I always have a tarp strapped to my pack) we were not too wet and our gear was in good shape. We set up camp did some fishing (my wife caught the only fish), we made dinner which consisted of canned chicken mixed with dry packaged noodles (light to carry) and the fish. Meeko loved helping my daughter and I collect fire wood. When I got the fire going using our PET balls (dryer lint mixed with petroleum jelly, messy to make but they make starting a fire with flint and steel a breeze) Meeko gave me the saddest look, why was I burning all his sticks he helped gather to play with. He soon forgot this as I got our grill out over the coals and setup our small cast iron skillet along with our Stanley cookware. The Stanley cook ware is great, good quality stainless steel, 2 quart pot with bowls that stack inside and light weight which is always a bonus when trekking in somewhere. After we had dinner my wife and kids unpacked our Rumpl and cuddled up around the fire. In the morning I make bacon and pancakes. Meeko loved both. The kids ate a bunch and we had a good meal to start the day. We waited until about 9:30 when the sun was hitting the lake over the trees and then we enjoyed the cool mountain lake until we hiked out that afternoon.
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