A is for Adventure

Boy did I go on an adventure this weekend! My dad invited James and me to go backpacking with him on Saturday. James and I showed up at his house as planned on Saturday afternoon. I had my tent, sleeping bag, a sweatshirt, and the clothes on my back. I've been backpacking before but apparently wasn't thinking straight. I forgot to bring long pants and forgot to tell James to bring warmer clothes! Ooops! We ended up borrowing from my dad. We finally finished packing and then drove up to the Uintah mountains.

My dad wanted to take us to this beautiful lake that his friend had hiked to. Since my dad had never been to the lake we were kind of going off of his friend's directions. We followed a trail for a while until we came to this sheer mountain of rocks! The motto of our trip soon became, "I wonder if it curves." We needed to get up and over somehow. So, we started climbing up the rocks hoping it would turn at the top and there would be a way over. I made it the farthest up and realized it was a horrible idea to keep climbing. By this time we were a long ways up. I was kind of paralyzed. James took off his pack and graciously helped me down. It took a lot of him saying, "Just move a little to your right. It'll be okay. You can do this" before I had enough courage to budge from the rock I was gripping. We eventually made it down the mountain and back to our car. It was dark by this point so we drove to a car camping site and stayed the night.

It was beautiful! The trip definitely didn't turn out the way we had expected it to, but I'm glad it happened the way it did. I had to put a lot of trust in James to help me down that mountain, and it felt good knowing I could trust him. He even took beatings from some rocks to get me down safely. All in all, it was a great adventure full of memory making moments. And the scenery was breath-taking!