I’m going to go rogue from Lindsay M’s list and share a “30th First” as my day three series post. As you read this I am somewhere in the vast Colorado wilderness on my first true backpack camping trip. What does this mean? Well, it means that on my back I am carrying one change of clothes, bags of dehydrated food, toilet paper, all of my own trash, bear bags, and bottle of wine. Yes, I brought a bottle of wine despite the extra weight it puts in the pack. Don’t judge me.
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I have begged Mike to take me backpacking since we moved to Colorado 2+ years ago but as our departure time approaches, I am more and more nervous. Combine that with a 50% chance of rain and I almost decided to stay behind…
Now accepting bets on whether or not I’ll be doing more backpacking in the future!
Did you enjoy your experience? My first backpacking trip was last weekend too – I didn’t bring a bottle of wine but did pack a beer to drink with my dehydrated dinner!
I hope you had fun and venture out again!
Thanks for the comment Lynne! We actually had a rough go ~ too much rain on Friday after work to hike in so we drove home and back up EARLY Sat morning. The hike in was gorgeous but only a few hours after setting up camp it stormed like crazy…then we had a small break before the sky opened again. By 6:30pm some tents were leaking and we decided to hike out…in the dark. It was pretty scary for me!