Lake Josephine

Our July family backpacking trip is complete! The hike was super easy and the views were beautiful. But it rained the entire time. We're tired of that. We do realize where we live and that we get rain a lot, and we know we can't let the rain stop us, otherwise we'd never go out. But just about every trip we've gone on this year, it has rained on us. It's really annoying when days leading up to the weekend and days immediately after our trip the weather is gorgeous and hot, yet for those two days we go out backpacking the sky is falling. It would just be really nice to catch a break, where we're not stuck in our tents the entire time and can actually go enjoy a swim in the beautiful lakes we hike to. Maybe we'll luck out in August....

Quick family pic at the start of our hike

 Views from different sections of our hike

 Mig Lake....first little lake we came upon. We had to hike up and over a little mountain to get to our lake.

 Lake Josephine peeking out through the trees

 Full view of the lake as we hiked around

 Camp Life

 Our view of the lake Sunday morning

 Our attempt of a family picture at the lake

 So here I am icing my foot after we got home and cleaned up. A month or so ago on one of our hikes, I injured my heal. I don't recall the name of the injury, but it's common for backpackers. I've just now brought it to Peter's attention (I've tried just dealing with it myself and kept quiet, but with going on weekly AND monthly hikes, it's hard to keep it secret any longer). It's a dull pain when I put pressure on my foot. On a daily basis, it's just uncomfortable because I'm on my feet all day long (cooking, cleaning, hanging out with the kids). Immediately after each backpacking trip, however, if I lift my foot up a little, it feels like the muscle wants to rip off the bottom of my foot. Not good. Plus, because of the pain, for a few days after each hike, I tweak the way I walk, which is now making my hips hurt. UGH. From what Peter read to me, the only way to help heal this is to stay off of it and take a break from hiking. Well, that's not really going to happen right now. I'm hoping that if I just keep up on icing it and taking a day here or there where I don't do much, I can continue on until January. Then I can properly take care of this issue.