Yosemite Hike
Yosemite Hike
On a break in the wrestling tour Mike and I headed out on a 7-day hike in the backcountry of Yosemite. I had never done anything like this and was a little nervous. Mike even told me that I would probably hate it for the first couple of days. Boy he couldn't have been more right, I was miserable. But waking up that first morning in a meadow with no one else around was the most amazing feeling.
This has to be one of my favourite pictures of
Mike.
Taking
a break from hiking he looks so at home on the
trail.
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On our 2nd day out Hetch Hetchy Dam was our destination. After hiking most of the day we were so happy to finally get our first view of the dam. We had to stop and take pictures. Boy did he love that remote for his camera.
He actually had me take this picture.
Due to the fact that his pants, jacket, shoes and backpack were all
matching.
We saw so many
beautiful things on that hike. This in just one
of the many fields of flowers that we had hiked
through.
Another great
picture of Mike hiking through a field of trees. That had been
burnt a few years earlier in the big fires in
Yosemite.
Hiking through
these huge fern groves was really awesome. At some places they were almost
over our heads. Shortly after this
picture we were attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. Mike was behind me
and I could tell he was running. Before I could turn around he was
yelling, "RUN". He almost ran me over. We got into the sun and dropped our
backpacks and they were covered with mosquitoes. I have never seen
anything like that it was
crazy.
| On the map this looked like a little stream but when we got there it was a bit bigger. Mike had to swim the river and rig up a line to haul all of aur stuff over. We took everything out of our backpacks and sent it over one at a time. Thankfully there was another couple that helped us send things over. Then it was my turn to swim ! The water was moving so fast that Mike actually had to stand in the water to catch me. |
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| Mike hauling our stuff over the river. |
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This is our camp our last night out in Pate Valley.
While we were out we saw a bear, swam a river and were attacked by mosquitoes and I was really sad to see it come end. I learned a lot on that trip , how to work with someone , how to trust and how to love someone. It was on the way home from this trip that Mike asked me "Could you ever see yourself living with me?" My only response was "I couldn't imagine NOT living with you". So far we had only been on the road for a couple of months. So making the decision to move in together was huge for both of us. While out on the next leg of the tour we decided that we wanted to move to Tahoe and live with Mark and some of his other friends.
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