It took me a bit, but here are our packrafting pictures! Our friend tipped us off to someone who was selling two packrafts in our sizes, so we took the plunge (haha) and bought some packrafts. Our first trip we just kind of paddled down Portage Creek for fun. The next time we took a professional with us who basically helped us realize that we don't know anything about being on rivers. It was fun though, we learned a lot and we had pretty good weather. We hope to use them in the future on some backcountry trips.
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| The packrafts blow up with these bags that you fill with air and then deflate into the packrafts. It's a lot easier and faster than blowing them up with your mouth. |
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| Just as we started to get the hang of what we were doing we ran into this little family of moose. Very cool to see them, but I didn't want to get anywhere near them. We pulled over and watched them to see if they would cross or not. The mom wanted to but the babies weren't willing to follow, so they ended up retreating to shore and we passed by without a problem. |
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| So glad I live in a place like this!!! |
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| Walking back on the Trail of Blue Ice we saw a black bear and enjoyed the land part of Portage Valley. We both agree that Portage is the prettiest of the four valleys. That's probably because it gets the most rain of all of them... but on a sunny day it doesn't get any better. |
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I love that I can do this kind of thing just a few minutes away from our house. We feel so lucky to be up here. :) Hope your summer has been just as sunny. We just took my parents down to Portage to enjoy the valley as well. We'll have to post some pictures of their trip soon!
