Melina: Fischertrails Yosemite trip Day 2 and A Tale of too Many Skeeters

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Fischertrails Yosemite trip Day 2 and A Tale of too Many Skeeters

Here is an excerpt from Tuesday's Journal!

Tuesday June 18, 2013

We slept in a little in the morning and cooked breakfast beside the lake we had a beautiful lakeside view while we enjoyed our oatmeal. We quickly packed up our packs and were so excited to be on out way. We started out on our trail and were hiking along this hill then made our way into this beautiful meadow and along this stream where we saw this little marmot that seemed so curious about us. As we continued walking we found ourselves walking beside this marsh that was covered with mosquitoes which was complete torture for me at one point I began running with my heavy pack to get away from all the skeeters. (and if you think that your bug spray, pants and long sleeve shirt will keep the skeeters from biting you, think again because they bit right through all of that) By the end of the day I was covered in bites.

We arrived at the High Sierra Backpackers camp by lunchtime and we decided to stop there for lunch.

We continued on our trek up and over a small summit walked along some melting snow on the ground and made our way over to the beautiful sunrise lakes there were three lakes that made up the sunrise lakes and we passed the first one where we saw some guys on what looked like an all guy fishing trip, then we made our way past the second and found a spot to camp on the third lower lake.

We were so exhausted this second day we set up camp and then just laid out on this large granite rock and took a nap, Tim jumped in and went for a swim while I slept in the sun it was so relaxing. At that campsite we had a little Marmot visitor that came unusually close to our packs, and we thought it would be a good idea to scare him off by throwing some woodchips toward him, well Tim actually hit the little guy right on the back (not too hard) the marmot looked back and then just walked off.

That night it got really cold so we went into our tent early again so we could warm up. That night both of us popped some ibuprofen before bed that night because we were feeling the pain and soreness more than ever before. We both fell asleep but woke up several times, as that was one of the coldest nights of our trip.