Gold Mint Trail Backpack Trip

Day number two on the way back!

This is a beavers home
Little Susitna river and Tyler's awesome fog

Behind me you can see a huge waterfall... or the end of the trail

So Tyler and I went on an overnight backpacking trip! To get started we pulled up to the trail head, and of course it started to rain we waited for a few minutes for the rain to let up

and we began our hike into the canyon, 6 miles later we put up our tent and called it a day due to yet another rain storm. After Tyler fell asleep at 10:30 I was left awake to listen for the bears. After about 1/2 hour I gave up and went to sleep. The next morning Tyler woke up at 5:30 and at 7:00 went to take some pictures. So excited about the awesome fog that was completely covering the area he came to wake me. I not being so excited about being awake didn't take to well to him wanting me up and out of bed to watch the fog roll out of the valley. After few minutes I was up and out of bed only to find out that I had missed the whole show. We cleaned up camp and started on our journey further into the canyon, passing many waterfalls and streams along the way an hour later I was soaking wet and at the end of my trail. Ready to be dry we turned around and headed back! And that was my first over night back packing trip, I carried my bag the entire way (20 pounds) and walked 14 miles at least. Now I am so sore that I decided to take it easy for awhile. Needless to say I am pretty proud of myself !