Thursday, June 20, 2024

Umbagog take 4

 We are honing in on the perfect canoe trip at Umbagog!  We were in campsite 31 this time: a bit further out.  We also started from the wildlife preservation parking, and went down the river.  Great cloudy weather kept temperatures in the low 70s.  We could have used a break on our butts halfway, but it's tough to find spots to stop at.  Anyway, we were pretty tired at the end of the day.

One thing different about this trip, was KT obtained a bunch of free, sketchy MREs last year and we decided to get rid of them once and for all.  So that was pretty much all of our food.  They are self heating and the heating elements were a bit old, so we ended up heading up meals in the pot.  We never really knew what we were getting, so it was a major surprise each time we opened up these things!


We spent an entire day just chilling (it was pretty hot), and started fires to keep the bugs away.  


We did a lot of swimming in the heat, which was pretty great.  we brought pool needles and even snorkels, which was pretty fun!


KT and I are still loving our new tent!


On the way out, we found it was really fun to link our canoes together and all row together on the way back.  We all got nice and sunburned, but had a great time!!

3 comments:

Blogful said...

Quality core memories being made, once delicious but sketchy MRE at a time. Ha ha!

Katie Stapleton said...

That's right! Haha

Whitehead Family Fun said...

Okay Katie what backpack do you like? We finally took our kids backpacking and they loved it. I almost died! We haven't backpacked for 20 years so gotta figure out the gear thing....maybe we are just old, haha.