Monday, August 3, 2009

the world is outside

The Elizabeth Clifford Commemorative Backpacking Trip 2009 was a success!

We started like this.

Then we hiked through lots of this,

and this,

to get to this.

Morgan did a lot of this

and this (picking out M&Ms in the trail mix).

Logan studied an oversized map,

Christopher taught Aaron how to fly fish,

Kristen kept it real,

and mountain goats bullied us.

The Clifford siblings all blessed with the same terrible skin, managed to give ourselves oddly shaped burns as evident by Elizabeth's legs,

Christopher's legs

Emily's legs,

and Logan's whole body really.

While the brownies (and baby) were unaffected.

And of course, after backpacking success, we got huge sodas.

I think if the mountains had bathrooms, the internet and Diet Dr. Pepper, then I would live there permanently.

5 comments:

CoCo said...

What the what?! Morgan has like super light hair. Too cute.

I love that the "brownies" were safe from the sun and look like they could be related in that photo.

Tasha - I was so happy to see the orange bike key chain in photo #1. Success!

Mimi said...

Us brownies are so lucky! How are your legs? That looks painful.

Katy and Mike said...

Looks like a beautiful trip! It's so cool that you're achieving your goal of backpacking. Aren't we so lucky to live in an area where we have such close access to these AMAZING places! Mike and I can't wait to go with you guys one of these times. I hope Morgan did okay with the bugs. I'm so sorry I didn't get back to Tasha in time to give her the bug spray advice.

k8 said...

this clifford sister is really jealous right now. but it looks like it was craaaazy fun and i'm glad you guys had a good time.

Greg and Jayne said...

Great great pictures, Em! It looks so beautiful and fun.