Trying to get a summer into three weeks... camping!

Great Basin National Park

Mikey and Camryn hiking at about 10,000 ft. elevation at Great Basin National Park.
Daddy and Camryn hugging a 3200 year old Bristlecone Pine.
Morgan's first camping trip at Strawberry Lake.

Morgan and Mommy at Capitol Reef.

As part of making up for Dad being gone over half the summer, we went camping three times in the last couple weeks of summer. First we went to Strawberry Lake, it was Morgan's first campout and between her crying, Camryn's not being tired and the white trash loud music drinking party close to us, it made for a long night.

We then went to Capitol Reef. Morgan and Camryn loved seeing the deer in the campground. When it got dark, the stars put on a show as we all laid on a blanket watching the shooting stars before going to bed. It could have been a rough night too, had Aunt Amanda not brought her Ipod, so that Camryn could listen to Moon River and had daddy not taken Morgan on a little drive to put her to sleep.

The last camping trip was just Daddy, Camryn and Mikey Persson. We went to Great Basin National Park. We didn't get in until late and there was a huge wind storm that made it impossible to set up the tent, so the three of us squeezed into the back of Forester. The next morning we took a beautiful drive and hiked a really cool trail up in the Wheeler Peak area that put Camryn hiking above 10,000 feet for the first time. We wandered through an ancient Bristlecone forest and Camryn felt obligated to hug, touch or ride almost everyone of them. It is a beautiful area.