4th of July Weekend

This past weekend I went to Fernie for some mountain biking, and wish I had brought my camera.  The views were amazing and it was pretty awesome.  Oh well.  Ted and I then did a short overnight hiking trip in the Yaak.  First we had a couple beers at the Dirty Shame Saloon in Yaak.  That is always a good thing to do before embarking on a warm weathered hike without a map.  After 7 miles, we found our backcountry site at one of the Fish Lakes 4 miles from the trailhead.

 There is a neat waterfall en route.  The hike is at low elevation in a canyon, which means no snow which is why we chose this hike.  I don't think either of us had been in the Yaak and it's a beautiful area.  Super remote.  So remote I half expected we'd run into that weird anti-government fugitive guy who is somewhere around in the woods.

the view from our campsite

 I brought a Walgreens floatie, my provisional packraft, and floated around on the lake.  I found that to be extremely relaxing and rewarding.  I was able to paddle out to an area of the lake that was loud with bird action and quiet with people noises.  As I laid there on my floatie a bald eagle flew overhead.  (Chanting USA! USA!) (ok kidding about the chanting part).

my "packraft" and oar

the blue blob is me I think

All in all a great weekend and the dogs were sufficiently tired.  We were exhausted too.  Evidently there was something large and loud crashing around camp during the night but the two dogs and I slept right through it (all four of us were crammed in our little tent, which poor Ted up terrified of bears or monsters).