Beautiful Sky
8/20/2012: Aug 20 through Aug 23. It was just Rod and Gary this year. Ben couldn’t go because his Visa for his study abroad in Rome was messed up and he had to stay to make sure it was taken care of and Elizabeth started working at Hillsboro High School that week. Marguerite had had her fill, at least for this year, of backpacking with our weekend, mosquito-filled trip to Mile Lake in the Sister’s Wilderness; she opted to float in the pool and drink gin and tonics. Go figure. There was, I think, only one mosquito in the High Sierra during this time period; it has been so dry. That one and only mosquito found my left knee the first night. After that, no, zero, nada mosquitos! Best mosquito (or lack thereof) trip ever. On Friday, Gary finished a solo five-day, 500 mile bike ride down the Oregon coast from Tigard. He was a little on the tired side.
Read all about this hike here.
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