Cloud Peak

So the kid is doing ok today. We had a reasonably nice day with some minor tummy problems, but nothing serious.

What the previous post (and the cool PictureTrail thingy) got me thinking about was trips with my brothers. Below are some pictures from a trip to the Cloud Peak Wilderness with Steve and Maddie in the fall of 2004. Backpacking in Wyoming during the fall is a mixed bag since there aren't many other people, but it can be cold and snowy. We faced snow on about 1/2 of the days, especially during our hike out of the mountains. When we got to the car, it was covered by about 6 inches of snow. We brushed off the windows and drove out of the mountains with piles of snow all over the car. On the way down, we eventually reached a point where it was warm and sunny with absolutely no snow, except for that on our car. We could literally see people that we passed pointing with perplexed looks at our snow-covered car as an incongruous sight in the warm low lands.

(For those who are real baby fans and couldn't care less about my backpacking trips with my brothers, rest assured, we'll get back to documentation of the kid's life now that I've got this out of my system.)