It’s been over a year since I’ve posted about Adventure Buddies. I’ve done a few trips with the kids since then, but not a big one.

This weekend, I planned another trip to the High Unitas. I’ve been so busy this year, and my window to get the kids out on a backpacking trip was quickly closing. Kailtin is 4 1/2. Alex is just over 2. And I had a dilemma. K desperately wanted to go on another backpacking trip, but only with Dad. And I really wanted to take Alex on his first backpacking jaunt. And either way, I was pretty sure that even with my mountain goat tendencies, I would be pushing it to try to haul enough gear for me and 2 kids and also be able to somehow heft them too when they get tired. (Even though I own about 8 backpacks–not counting camelbaks–I don’t think I even have one large enough for that type of excursion)

So I hatched a plan. Friday afternoon, I headed up to Cliff Lake with K and our gear. We had a great trip hiking the roughly 1/2 mile to Cliff Lake, had a great night (she loved Mountain House spaghetti), cooked pancakes and hot cocoa for breakfast, and had some fun adventures Saturday morning hiking to another lake and up on top of some high cliffs.

Then we loaded up a small day-pack and hiked out. We drove the hour and 45 minutes home, I swapped K for Alex, drove back up to the trailhead, and Alex and me hiked to our base camp. Tent was right where we left it. We had a great night (Easy Mac n’ Cheese for us) and Sunday morning (pancakes and cocoa again), then packed up everything and headed home.

AWESOME weekend for me. Here’s some pics:

I love having adventures with kids in the mountains. Maybe one of these years, I’ll just setup a camp somewhere and take the kids every weekend.

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