Nice pics man! Looks like you had a great time. That is a big tent... but appropriate for bigger groups! I'm used to carrying solo tent, usually a small two person just to have a little extra room for myself, usually 4-5 pounds. I just put some money into a high tech single tent, and its only 1.5# or .74kg! You cant stand up in it though, but it is tall enough to sit up in.
Yep! Getting dirty and tired is often part of it. Actually its something I crave. If I'm not completely spent and covered in sweat at the end of the day then I wish I had gone further or a bigger mountain. I love the challenge. Best part is ending up near a river you can hop into... feels so good after a long hard day.
That is Red Creek in Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia. A very beautiful place thats drivable within 5-6 hours of here, and offers many miles of trails, I think the main loop is around 25-30 miles maybe, with tons of other trails too. Not big mountains but still some elevation gain/loss there. Perhaps sometime I'll put up a thread with pictures from that trip. Most of my hiking was done when I was your age, and didnt have a camera. I've only got back into it starting around 3 years ago, so I dont have pictures of a lot of my trips, just a couple in the mountains, and a couple kayak trips.
Enjoy it! I miss a lot of the group trips from when I was a kid in school. Like I said I never did scouts, but every summer I went to a week long church camp in the Adirondack Park in northern NY. The regular camp was in cabins and they had a cafeteria building and a lake for swimming and a bunch of activities and stuff. That was mostly for grade schoolers. For the older kids they had more specialized camps and I always did the canoe camp. It was a week long trip of 12 of us. We would usually cover 4 or 5 lakes during the week canoeing to a different site each night. There were some portages as well, even a mile and half portage of our canoes and all our gear. That was tough! But it was such a great time. Someday I'll go back to the 'Dacks and retrace the route we used to do from 7th lake to Long lake. This is were it was:
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=7th+lake&daddr=long+lake+ny&hl=en&ll=43 .858297,-74.571075&spn=0.292115,0.44426&sll=43.858297,-74.571075&sspn=0.292115,0.44426&geocode=FbV8mwId6c eL-yHne3dJDkXWVikD_bZdgkbfiTHne3dJDkXWVg%3BFVL4ngIdL2-Q-ylrsD_9HjPLTDGeXAnHjV8rSg&mra=ltm&t=m&z=11
But that follows the road, just to show you the area... instead we canoed up Raquette Lake and through Forked Lake.
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