Backpacking with Wombat

The Tree was closed for a five-day weekend, so we went on a four-day, three-night backpacking trip in the Three Sisters Wilderness:

Here I am at the start of the trip, while I was still clean:

I took a lot of breaks and had a lot of snacks:

Our first night, we stayed at Teddy Lake:

I did a lot of log walking:

and swimming:

The morning was cool

and calm:

Morning coffee by the lake:

After breakfast, we were off to Snowshoe Lake.

We passed several lakes along the way, including Muskrat Lake:

When we got to Snowshoe Lake, it was time for more swimming:

The view from our campsite:

We headed back to Teddy Lake for our third night. I was in charge of route finding:

Somehow, we made it there anyway. We did lots more swimming and some world’s-strongest-man training:

Wombat made the trip with us as well:

He enjoyed swimming:

and eating our camp food:

Due to wombat’s voracious appetite (or was it mine?), we were running low on food for the trip out, so I resorted to eating peanut butter with a spoon:

We stopped at Cultus Lake for one last swim, where I did some excellent going under water: