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I had a blast this weekend diana and i arrived early on friday to cougar rock campground and after using the “comfort station” (bathroom with cold water and no showers) unloaded the clothes out of our packs loaded up the ten essentials and water and headed off to hike to carter fallswhich didn’t require us to drive to as the trailhead was near our campground. The hike was very easy as we only had the 10 essentials and water so our packs were light, with a puny 650ft elevation gain over 2.8 miles it was a pretty easy and senic hike.

After arriving back at camp we played nertz until everyone else arrived and we started setting up camp. After camp was setup we cooked chicken and sat around the fire talking for a while until nate whiped out his guitar and lead us in a few worship songs. Unfortuantely our worship was cut short by quiettime but as someone who has had bad experiences by fellow christians ignoring quiet time in the name of god i insisted that we be quiet so our neighbors could sleep. Everyone went to bed around 10 that night.

The next morning i woke up at 5:30 am and couldn’t get back to sleep so i put on some warm clothes and went for a walk on my walk i saw aaron who had gotten up before me and was heading back to camp from his walk. I walked for maybe 10-15 minutes and headed back to camp where i saw sharon sittind down who had the honors of waking up at 4:30 i beleieve. Eventually everyone got up and a couple more people got up we headed down to the longmire general store to pickup some more firewood so we could cook our breakfast.

Breakfast for me was oatmeal as that is what i like to eat when i go hiking i forgot what everyone else had but maybe aaron or diana will elaborate as to what was for breakfast. Diana brought her french press cofeemaker which was probably the best 2 cups of coffee i have ever had. After breakfast we all piled into the vehicles we came in and hiked to comet falls during the hike almost everyone got injured except for aaron and his wife colleen even their baby got “injured” with a sunburn which is a big deal to a 5 month old. After fording a river because the bridge was out we did a little backcountry hiking to find the trail to make it to comet falls which was AMAZING at how powerfull it was. For fun we stood under the second falls (picture link) and got soaked but it was a blast and we dried of fairly quick with the campfire taking care of the rest when we got back. This hike reminded me of why i love my hiking poles so much besides the obvious speed benefit they have they also lesen the strain on my knees as well as provide stablity when crossing loose soil or fording a river .

That night a lot of us crashed pretty early due to sun exposure as well as the hiking we did i got a good 12 hours of sleep and since i was the first person to bed i can’t really say what happened that night.

The next morning diana woke up early and did the carter falls hike by herself while the rest of us slept in and enjoyed the last few hours of camping/vacation. Packing up went smoothly and i think most of us ended up with what we came with which is always a plus!

Overall i had a great weekend and an excuse for why i didn’t post for 2 days.