I woke early, something I’ve been doing a lot lately thanks to the bright morning sun and lack of someone to snuggle with, so decided to make the most of it. No one else was up yet so I did a bit of packing up, had myself some cereal then wandered over to the visitor’s…

Time for another round of Angel’s Landing! It was everyone’s first time but mine and I didn’t mind one bit. Three times and I’m still not sick of this hike. Before we left camp, I scavenged some firewood from a vacated camp across the way after consulted Cat on the ethics of doing such a…

Derek and I weren’t in any rush to get going on our “6-12 hour” hike since we wanted to wait for the day to warm up as much as possible. We all made breakfast and, since I’d packed the night before, it didn’t take much for us to be ready. Derek and I head off…

According to our weather man Derek, the rain was supposed to stop at 7am so when I woke up to rain, I stayed in bed, assuming it wasn’t time yet. Turns out the weather man was wrong, it rained late. I heard Derek getting the tarp set up so I emerged shortly after. We did…

I slept in a little later than the family, trying to salvage a few more minutes of what had been a restless night. When I emerged, breakfast for them was already halfway done so I played catch up. Emma, Derek and Kylie’s three year old, had been too shy to say hello to me last…

We had the most comfortable Walmart camp I’d ever experienced. Cleo had a nice sleep in and we were best friends again, she was obviously grateful for a nice place to sleep uninterrupted with her favourite guy and didn’t mind me sharing. I went in to Walmart to use the facilities and buy some bacon…

I don’t remember when we woke up but it wasn’t in any hurry. The sun was out after yesterday’s rain and it was warming up. We had absolutely nowhere to be (funny that) so we woke up slow. I opened the door of the van and we lay there, looking out at the glossy surface…

I was up at 6am thanks to an alarm and drove away from camp at about 6:30am. Dan crept into the Presidential Lounge to sleep a bit more as I drove into the mountains to the trailhead of The Whole Enchilada. After doing my SPOT, my friend Derek had informed me that I should ride…

We woke, half off the bed, but otherwise happy. We fixed the bed and didn’t even get out of bed before playing a round of cards. The competition was heating up so we were keen to get as many games in as possible. As we packed the cards up (we both won one round each)…

We both wanted change of scenery after three nights at the one camp, so after faffing around per our usual routine of making hot chocolate and breakfast. We procrastinated packing up the workshop by playing some cards, until eventually got our shit together and packed up. We head off around 2pm, in search of greener…