A Really High Adventure!

 

 This summer for High Adventure, Devin and Chris were lucky enough to go to the Sawtooth Mountains on a three day backpacking trip.  They hiked 7 miles to Alice Lake, and from all accounts it was a grueling but amazing hike.

Jon, Brandon, Clark, Brodie, Kash, Chris, and Devin

 There were three leaders, Adam Heder, Jon Byington, and Dave VanOrden and nine boys, Devin, Chris, Brandon and Patrick Riley, Dean and Kash Clinton, Collin Jorgenson, Brodie, and Clark Wilkinson.

Clark, Dean, Collin

They hiked to the campsite the first day and then further up the mountain the next day.  Chris, Devin, and Jon Byington were the only ones who made it clear up to the top of Snowy Peak because it got kind of treacherous.  Jon told me later that when he saw Chris scampering up to the top like a goat, his stomach jumped into his throat.  He said he and Devin were carefully choosing their steps on the way up, but Chris just went straight up the steep part of the mountain.  I was not happy to hear about this, but I'm proud that they made it to the top!  Hurray for my two mountain goats!

They had a great time, and Devin took some beautiful pictures of a some really breathtaking views.