Mt Hood

   This Post is courtesy of Helen of Trout

                                                   

This last week was the Boyd family reunion, which is Angela Cronin's side of the family.  Every year I think it'll be my last, but then every year I get invited again!  They always go camping to cool, remote places and it is so fun!  This year the destination was Mt Hood in Oregon.  Angela Cronin invited me to drive there with her family.  They were pulling a small trailer and, while on the freeway, we got flagged down by another car telling us one of the wheels was smoking.  Turns out all the bearings, except one, had failed and only one was keeping the wheel on the trailer!  Since it was July 4th weekend, EVERYTHING was closed.  Thankfully Les Shwab was still open for another 45 minutes when we pulled in.  They were awesome and fixed both wheels (apparently the other was going out too), replaced the tires, and $400 later we were off again!  I felt so bad for them cause it was a borrowed trailer they ended up basically paying for it but won't get to keep it. 

The first part of the reunion began with a backpacking trip consisting of about 13 miles.  We enjoyed the beautiful forest, lake, river, and many many spring crossings!  Only Wes and his two boys, Angela and her family, and myself ended up going backpacking.  Everyone else was still traveling to the destination. 

 

There were many many obstacles to traverse on this backpacking trip.  Logs and springs were the most common obstacles, with an occasional loss of the trail and spiders webs. 

Side note: this water was fuh-reezing!!

We had a spikeball tournament.  That was really fun!  It was nice to have several teams you could play against, and everyone was a good sport about winning or loosing.

We played lots of card games!

The kids occupied themselves by building a huge fort!

We went on a few hikes.