My Backpacking Trip . . . Plan B

 Well Mother Nature can be quite a menace to deal with . . . She has foiled my backpacking trip to Red Castle Lakes twice now. Darn her. 

We had gotten about a half-dozen ladies to go on a backpacking trip early in September. All was looking good until that week a freak-storm came through and dropped almost a foot of snow on our plans. Luckily, we came up with a Plan B and had a great outdoor trip with some great ladies (and a couple of adult children that came along as well).

Most of us left on Wednesday, drove to Lyman, Wyoming, and stayed that night at a motel. On Thursday, plans were changed, but we still headed for the High Uinta Wilderness in Utah - just the area that didn't have snow at the moment. We backpacked in on a somewhat cool and cloudy day about 6 miles and set-up camp. It was so cold that evening - it even snowed on us, but it didn't stick much to the ground - that we were in our tents by 6pm (the breeze made it super cold outside of our tent). We chatted and had a jolly time before calling it a day. Four of us were in one tent - while Sherri and her daughter slept in their tent. Most of us were pretty warm that night - even though I am sure it got in the 30s. I had used some birthday money and bought a new sleeping pad; plus I used one of the boys' super-nice sleeping bag. I had never slept so well camping as I did this trip. Yay!

On Friday, after missing our rock-sign and stick-arrow, Heather and her son finally found us. :) We went on a 5+ loop hike from our camp. It took us to about 5-6 beautiful alpine lakes. It was a sunny and gorgeous day. We were able to stay out of our tent until a whopping 7:30, which was when the sun went down and became freezing again!

Saturday we got up, ate, and then headed back to the trailhead. It was a great trip and super fun because of the awesome gals that came along. Lucky me!

This was taken a few miles in to our hike - we took a little path down to a lake and had dropped our packs. From front to back: Kandace, me, Sarah, Heather, Tayler, and Sherri.

Chilling (almost literally) at our campsite. Unfortunately we were not able to have fires. So sad.

Heather and Sarah near our campsite - pretty, both them and the scenery!

The next pictures were all taken from our loop-hike we did on Friday:

Gorgeous Uintas!

Here we all are getting ready to head out! From left to right: Tayler (Sherri's daughter), Sherri, Kandace, Tanner (Heather's son), Heather O., me, Sarah, and Heather C. Awesome humans. :)

We made it! We ladies at the end of our hike - it never takes us long to get our packs off!

Heather O. and her son Tanner headed back to Logan, where Heather's daughter had her first baby - and Heather's first grandbaby. Crazy! Tayler headed back to BYU-I. Sherri headed to Grand Junction (Sherri moved from Colorado almost a year ago, now living in California. Her parents live in Junction.). The rest of us - myself, Heather C., Sarah, and Kandace drove to my parent's home,  which was just about an hour away. We did all stop in Kamas and get some lunch!

My dad took us gals on a fun drive in his side-by-side - after we had all showered, of course. :) My parents took us out to dinner in Midway and it was super fun and delicious. That evening we all watched one of my now-favorite movies, The Hundred-Foot Journey. (In fact, I loved it so much that when I got home on Sunday, I made my whole family watch it - they loved it, too.) We drove home on Sunday and that was that!