This weekend I took Steven surprise camping next to the waterfall on the mountain that we work on. We drove up at the end of the day for a "picnic" and ended up staying the night in a protected area on the side of the mountain. We saw a brown bear on our hike down, so we bagged all of our food and hung it down the gorge just over the river. The only thing that bothered us that night were mosquitos!

The Chilkoot Trail is a 33 mile-long trail that starts in Dyea, AK and ends in Lake Bennett, Canada that was used by the stampeders to get to the gold fields in the Yukon. Hiking the Chilkoot was one of the first big adventures we took together in September 2012, and we decided to hike it again this last September. The first time we hiked the 33 miles in just three days, which didn't leave a lot of time for getting sidetracked (read about it on my old blog here). This year we decided to take enough food for approximately a week so we would have the freedom to stop anywhere we wanted and take time to really enjoy the scenery.

Camping at Upper Dewey Lake last July and hiking up to Devils Punchbowl and beyond