Looking down a rough trail covered with tall grass and purple and yellow wildflowers, with tall spruce trees and scrubby shorter trees on each side. There's a person walking ahead on the trail with a big backpack on. The sky is smokey-hazy.

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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 10:56:34 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   Thanks to visiting family, my partner and I got to go for an overnight backpacking trip (the first time we've left the farm together for >12 hrs in the last ~4 yrs).

   It was muggy, and the trail was rough, and there were more mosquitoes than I've ever experienced in my life.

   But it was AWESOME. Gosh I forgot how much I love backpacking!! Because the trail was bad, we saw 0 people (and 2 bears!), got to camp in a beautiful, deserted backcountry campground, and swim in a lake with a loon family