Took my wife this past weekend to the SHT... specifically Castle Danger to Split Rock. It was her very first backpacking trip... we've always enjoyed camping together and hiking together, but for various reasons she has never made it out backpacking with me until now!
We left the Castle Danger trail head around 7pm or so and headed to the first campsite on the trail which was just over a mile. We got there just before dark and set up camp, gathered wood, and got a fire started just as a group of people rolled into camp. We all had a good time sitting around the fire. My wife and I were a bit jealous of the brats the other group carried in and cooked over the fire.
The next morning we packed up and headed out by 8:30am. It was a beautiful morning albeit a bit windy. We hiked to a campsite (can't remember the name) for lunch and as we were getting stuff out for lunch I noticed a pair of tree straps on the bench. When I got closer I noticed that they were stitched/signed by hammock forums' very own Fronkey Anyways we kept hiking and then took another break at Gooseberry State Park by the falls and rested our feet. We ended up getting to our second site, Blueberry Hill campsite around 5pm or so and first thing first we hung our hammocks and took a short siesta! we were awaken by 5 guys setting up their tents. We ended up sharing the site that night with 5 marines... just a great group of guys! The last day we had planned to hike back, but when we got to the 4 mile mark that day (back to around Gooseberry) my wife's knee started to really bother her so we headed out to hwy 61 and started to try and hitch hike. We ended up walking almost all the way back to our car before getting picked up. Turns out the guy who picked us up worked for the MN conservation corps and is a fellow hammocker... although not on HF yet. Anyways my wife said she had a wonderful time and I did too! We ended up doing about 22miles total so I was really proud of her!
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