There are only a couple things I look forward to all year with great anticipation. Like when I was younger and would count down the days to Christmas starting December 26th. I remember thinking, "only 364 more long days til I get to open presents again." Well, one of those things that I think about all year is the Woodbury Man Trip.
The annual trip is 5 nights backpacking in the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho. Usually we go to the same lakes and camp at the same places depending on the fishing. The trip always starts on Labor Day and this year was especially cold. When we started the hike the temperature outside was 39 degrees...it got down in the 20's every night! The first night the lake had 2" of snow in some places. I guess nothing spectacular happened of note but we had a great time.
We convinced a couple of friends to come along by showing them all the good pictures of fish we have caught in years past. It was nice having Shane and Jared Whiting come along, however, Shane probably thinks we photoshopped all the fish because he only caught 1 lousy fish the entire time! All together think we caught around 115 fish.
Day 1: hiked into Toxaway Lake (6 miles and 1400' elevation gain)
Day 2: hiked to Edna Lake (5 miles 1700' elevation change)
Day 3: fished all day
Day 3: fished all day
Day 4: fished all day
Day 5: hiked back (11 miles)
Here is the link to the pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/kyle.woodbury/2008WoodburyManTrip#
2 comments:
I just love the name: "Man Trip." And great new family picture at the top!
Marcy: I hope to make it just "woodbury trip" one of these days and have my wife come. I am going to have to do some serious sweet talking and probably have to carry her entire pack to get her to join the trip!
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